On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 12:04, Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Friday, 2 July 2021 08:15:03 PDT connor horman via Std-Proposals wrote:
> > If the
> > constructor is invoked with a temporary argument in the position of the
> > temporary, then the lifetime of that temporary is extended to match the
> > lifetime of the object under construction
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> Does that include when new'ing such a type?
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> new Type(reference_to_be_lifetime_extended);
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> Does it get extended for the lifetime of the dynamic type? And how does
> the
> destructor know to end it?
>
No, for that exact reason. I could make it considerably more painful and do
that (maybe it could store the temporary in that memory, and tell the
delete expression to destroy it), but that's a rabbit hole I'd rather not
wander down right now. This is why I mentioned it has to be automatic,
static, or thread storage duration (though that's in the specification
section, and the text you cited was in the high level description, so I
probably should have made the same clear there).
 Basically, the rule applies whenever lifetime extension would have applied
if the temporary initialized an rvalue reference instead. Though, does `new
std::initializer_list<int>{1,2,3,4};` lifetime-extend the temporary array
(I'd assume not, but if so, that may be a potential argument).

>
> PS: the usual discussion about whether this should be an attribute or a
> full
> keyword is missing. Remember: a compliant implementation of an attribute
> is to
> do nothing.
>
I did mention in Drawbacks that this would require an implementation to
provide the specified behaviour of the attribute. Although, I guess I did
omit the argument that it should be a keyword (assuming it would be
implicit). I'm unsure whether making it a full keyword would be a good
idea, but if making an attribute with a required effect is a non-starter, I
guess it would be the only other solution (I doubt it could work as a
contextual keyword).

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> Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering
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