
Holiday Special with Phil Nash and Timur Doumler
CppCast
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How to Reinterpret Cast Objects in C++
In COSA 20, it says certain functions implicitly create objects. The problem still was, what do we do if the memory comes from a function that isn't blessed magically? So now you can explicitly create them. You're going to explicitly tell the compiler, I want to start the lifetime of a widget without actually calling a widget constructor there and just interpret those bits as a widget. That's the new thing that we're going to get in COSA 23.
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