Copy a struct on the heap and get the pointer to it.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/12/11 8:39 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We recently had a discution on #D about copying a struct on the heap and
> getting a pointer to it.
>
> We come up with the following solution (Thanks to CyberShadow !) :
>
> struct S;
> S s; // Allocated locally.
> [s].ptr; // Get a pointer to a copy in the heap of the struct

This should work:

S s;
auto p = new S(s);

It's a bug in the compiler if it doesn't. Unfortunately it doesn't for 
primitive types, e.g. new int(5) does not work.


Andrei