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>>>>> On 18 Nov 1995 22:24:33 GMT, wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson)
said:

    Paul> An example that's closer to my heart is that I want to support STL
    Paul> classes with orthogonal persistence.  I'd like it to be possible
    Paul> for a piece of code to operate on instances of a class irrespective
    Paul> of whether they're allocated in transient memory, or in a persistent
    Paul> store.

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.

I think the placement syntax when extended to persistent stores and
such, whatever goes as the placement-expression, should be passed to
the constructor too.. Or can this be done sans such an extension? 

Thanks in advance. 



	
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Anil

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