Subj : Re: works only outside class [OT]
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Goran Bervar" <n.e.b.e.r.e.m@yahoo.com>
Date : Fri Jan 09 2004 09:47 am

"Thomas Maeder [TeamB]" <maeder@glue.ch> wrote in message
news:m2y8t21g04.fsf@madbox2.local...

> >         term_t ref = PL_new_term_ref();
>
> This initializes ref with the return value of PL_new_term_ref(). In
principle,
> the term_t copy constructor is used for this, but it could also be be
> optimized away.

I wonder why you say "optimized" away <s>. I recently needed to size-down my
DOS appliciation with BCB 5 and I was __really__ surprised when I discovered
that using defaullt ctor,operator=  pair generates smaller machine code than
using (default) copy ctor.

goran

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