C++: dynamically allocating a member array of structs using non-default constructor

Question

If I have:

struct a_struct
{
    int an_int;

    a_struct(int f) : an_int(f) {}
    a_struct() : an_int(0) {}
};

class a_class
{
    a_struct * my_structs;         


        

Answer 1

You could use an array of pointers to pointers. Then you can create the array that will hold pointers to a_struct(), so you can decide later which constructor to use:

class a_class {
    a_struct ** my_structs;

    a_class() { my_structs = new a_struct* [10]}
    void foo () {
       my_structs[0] = new a_struct(1);
       my_structs[5] = new a_struct("some string and float constructor", 3.14);
    }
};