"Ion Gaztañaga" wrote:
If you really *must* provide 2-phase construction, then please make it a special mode that can be enabled with an #ifdef.
I see you have strong opinions like me. So, no ifdefs, please. I would like to point out that as it's using the same model as Shmem, fstream from the standard library is also broken.
Filesystem is quite expected to fail. The classes were designed before exceptions were fully accepted (I think) and would not be sucessful if they didn't work on systems w/o exceptions. ----------- Anyway: shmem can use factory method returning a objact acting like smart pointer. This would hide the construction/initialisation phases and work in exception-less environment. For systems forced to live without heap this factory method can take as parameter buffer char[sizeof(shmem)] where the shmem object gets instantiated. Ability to provide "heap" for such systems should be listed on "What I can do with shmem" docs page. /Pavel