Re: Class Destroys itself straight away!
Gerry Hickman wrote:
Hi,
I have a Class who's constructor accepts an STL wstring, but it seems to
kill itself before it can be used. If I initialize with int, it works as
expected. Here's the sample code and the output. Note the Destructor is
firing twice.
#include "stdafx.h"
using namespace std;
class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass(wstring);
~MyClass(void);
void SayHello(void);
};
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
wstring wsInput = _T("Passed in String");
MyClass mc = MyClass(wsInput);
// Class kills itself here!
wcout << "About to use Class" << endl;
mc.SayHello();
return 0;
}
MyClass::MyClass(wstring wsNewString)
{
wcout << "Constructing Class" << endl;
}
MyClass::~MyClass(void)
{
wcout << "Destructing Class" << endl;
}
void MyClass::SayHello()
{
wcout << "Say Hello" << endl;
}
// Output From Program
Constructing Class
Destructing Class <-- WHY??
About to use Class
Say Hello
Destructing Class
Gerry:
This is happening because you are making unnecessary copies. Try like this:
class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass(const wstring&);
~MyClass(void);
void SayHello(void);
};
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
wstring wsInput = L"Passed in String";
MyClass mc(wsInput);
wcout << L"About to use Class" << endl;
mc.SayHello();
return 0;
}
Always pass input parameters by const reference if you can.
You can also do just
MyClass mc(L"Passed in String");
BTW, you should not use _T("") with wstring; use L"". If you want
"build-agnostic" code you can do things like
typdef std::basic_string<TCHAR> tstring;
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