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How, I can prevent an object from being allocated on the heap?

For a class CCard i want to prevent users from doing this

CCard *ptrCard = new CPrintCard;

and only allow them to do this:

CCard objCard;

How can i implement this?
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Feb-11 15:39pm    
Good question per se, even though I agree with the concerns about the rationale of this design explained in Answers.
--SA

Answered here. The short version is that it's a "Bad Idea (tm)". Proper documentation is the best way, bsome techniques are shown in this link.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10985/how-to-prevent-an-object-being-created-on-the-heap[^]

BTW, I found this with google, and the link above was the 2nd of 166,000.
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CPallini 15-Feb-11 15:21pm    
Well done, 5.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Feb-11 15:39pm    
Good answer, especially with "short version", my 5.--SA
LaxmikantYadav 15-Feb-11 23:06pm    
Thanks John for your response.
One way can be declaring a
private:
  operator new(size_t);

in the class. No implementation is needed.

Simply an expression like new yourclass dosn't compile since a class new operator is declared but cannot be called, being private.

This is similar as declaring copy and assign as private to disable copy and assignment capabilities produced by default.
 
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Feb-11 15:40pm    
Good known trick (John's Answer gives more), my 5.
--SA
Emilio Garavaglia 16-Feb-11 15:42pm    
It will be interesting a simple way to admit on-heap allocation, inhibiting on-stack.
(i.e. the inverse of what had been required here). I cannot find a trivial way...
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 19:25pm    
Yes, sure, I agree. That's why I appreciated the Question and this simple Answer. Not quite trivial...
Thank you.
--SA
This combination:
C++
template <typename T>
class OnStackType
{
  T m_value;

public:
  OnStackType()                   { m_value = T(); };
  OnStackType(const T& init)  { m_value = init; };
  
  operator T&()               { return m_value; };
  T* operator &()             { return &m_value; };
  T& GetValue()               { return m_value; };
};

class A
{
  int m_iMember;

protected:
  A() : m_iMember(0) {};
  A(const A& a) : m_iMember(a.m_iMember) {};
  ~A() {};

public:
  void SetMember(int iSet) { m_iMember = iSet; };

  friend class OnStackType<A>;
};

- will allow the code: OnStacType<A> a; ,
not: A a; ,
but: OnStackType<A>* pa = new OnStackType<A>(); ... :)
 
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Nish Nishant 15-Feb-11 15:40pm    
Well, that uses stack semantics but once the wrapper object is allocated on the heap, the member will also be allocated in the heap. But interesting idea, take a 5 :-)
There's rarely a good reason to do this. So perhaps you need to reconsider your design/requirements.
 
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Stephen Hewitt 15-Feb-11 8:25am    
I can think of reasons you may want to do it. For example, to make it harder to misuse some sort of scope guard class.
Nish Nishant 15-Feb-11 8:26am    
Yeah, I did say rarely, but even then there are usually better ways to work around it.
Stephen Hewitt 15-Feb-11 8:32am    
Yeah, you did say rarely. I was wondering if you were going to point that out;)
Nish Nishant 15-Feb-11 8:37am    
:-)
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Feb-11 15:41pm    
Basically agree, My 5. However, the question itself deserves the full answer.
--SA

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