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Re: cyg_create_thread question

Stephan Bourduas wrote:
On October 29, 2004 06:06 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:00:19AM -0400, Stephan Bourduas wrote:

This is more of a C/C++ question.  Can someone tell me
exactly what "new((void *)thread)" thread does?  The code
is taken from kapi.cxx.


The normal usage of new is that it allocated the memory for the object
on the heap. This usage you pass the memory for the object to new.

Andrew


Ahh... I see. Simple. Don't know why I wasn't finding anything with Google.

google for 'placement new' :)

Jani

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