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Right now I am writing in c++ a program to manipulate a linked list.

This means that proceedures and function often want to create objects
on the heap since it is a bad idea to return objects on the stack.
Also it is a good idea to initialize all objects you create.

The only way I know to put an initialized object onto the heap is:

foo * fp = new foo;
foo f ( init );
*fp = init;

If f is a large object with many pieces this is a very wasteful proceedure
since this involves copying f into the space of fp after going to the
work of creating and allocating f.  Is there a better way of doing
this?  I know it can be done by creating a function that takes
fp and initializes it with init but I find this inelegant.  Why have
constructors if they have to always be bypassed?

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-David Sher
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