Re: [Geekos-devel] first release of experimental version

[David H. <da...@cs...>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:09:30PM -0500, David Hovemeyer wrote:
> I've conciously avoided using the dynamic "new" and "delete" operators,
> so we can completely avoid automatic calls to constructors and
> destructors made by the compiler.  (These calls can be made explicitly
> as needed.)

Just to clarify, the above statement applies to dynamically
allocated objects only.  Ctor/dtor calls are of course mandatory
for objects used by value.  However, I would like to avoid using
objects by value as much as possible.

Also, for plain structs having no members with constructors/destructors,
I'm pretty sure it's legal for the compiler to make the implicit
constructor and destructor no-ops which can be optimized away.
This falls under the category of "no extra overhead for C programs"
which is one of the design goals of C++.

-Dave