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In article fsf@marsh.cacs.usl.edu, akv@cacs.usl.edu (Anil Vijendran) writes:

>I have a question in relation to this... I've seen persistence
>systems/libraries where the allocator or the heap itself is passed
>using the placement syntax... for example,

>	ptr = new (pstore) shape;

>I have always been wondering how the constructor of the class could
>allocate its data members on the same heap the top level object was
>placed in.

Give the constructor an additional parameter:

	ptr = new (pstore) shape(pstore); // or whatever
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com



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