On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:53:07 +0100 > Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18 October 2011 16:12, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: >> > >> > Of course, with C++, the destructor routine is really what C++ calls a >> > destructor, e.g >> > something like extern "C" void my_destructor_for_class_C (class C* p) >> > { delete (p) p; // call the placement version of operator delete, from >> > <new> C++ library >> > header. } >> >> Why not just call the destructor? >> >> p->~C() > > You are right. But I was also thinking of giving a C ABI to these destructors.
why? In a good design, you almost never want to do that.