A question about postblit constructor

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 12:06:44 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 11:20:47 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 10:32:03 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
>> wrote:
>>>>[...]
>>
>> I meant the example as an answer to your statement, "I wonder 
>> how new memory is allocated without an explicit malloc here". 
>> The postblit was intended as a chance to "fixup" everything 
>> when you needed a deep copy. The new struct is initialized as 
>> a shallow copy, so when you enter into the postblit, the 
>> pointer is already pointing at the original location. Without 
>> assigning it a new malloc'ed address, your memcpy was 
>> essentially overwriting the original location with its own 
>> data.
>
> What I need was a deep copy, and I thought I could have done it 
> using postblit constructor. Thanks for clarification.

I think copy constructor is less confusing though.