I'm wondering in reading the 14.7.1.4 example of the standard, about
template implicit instantiation: there it is found the following code
template<class T> struct Z {
void f();
void g();
};
void h() {
Z<int> a; // instantiation of class Z<int> required
Z<char>* p; // instantiation of class Z<char> not required
Z<double>* q; // instantiation of class Z<double> not required
a.f(); // instantiation of Z<int>::f() required
p->g(); // instantiation of class Z<char> required, and
// instantiation of Z<char>::g() required
}
followed by this comment:
"Nothing in this example requires class
Z<double>, Z<int>::g(), or Z<char>::f()
to be implicitly instantiated."
Almost all is clear enaugh to me, but my question is: does the line
p->g();
imply allocation of the pointer p to hold an address for the member
function g ONLY?
I didn't find any new operator before.
And what about this pointer at the end of the expression? Is it
implicitly released as well as it was "implicitly allocated"?
Or all I wrote up to now is meaningless? ....
Thanks in advance.
GS