placement new to defer to a different constructor

Question

Is this safe? I\'m not using any virtual functions in my actual implementation, but I\'m tempted to believe that even if I was, it would still be safe.

clas         


        

Answer 1

As others said, is a bad idea, and as a possible destructive case: what if you do

class Foo
{
    Foo()
    {
        // initialize things
    }

    Foo( int bar )
    {
         new ( this ) Foo(bar);
    }
}

welcome no the land of infinite recursion.