Calling C++ destructor directly in resourceHash.hpp

[John Rose]

On Jun 11, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Ioi Lam <ioi.lam at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I am looking at these two functions in "utilities/resourceHash.hpp":

You are worried about the V destructor running,
where the V struct is a member of Node (Node::_value).
In the normal case, running the destructor of Node
transparently runs the destructors of the K and V
members of Node.

The place where dropped destructors can happen
in this sort of pattern is when you overwrite a variable,
which is point (a) in your example.  Your V::operator=
is responsible for retiring any resources used by the
previous value of Node::_value which are not going to
be used by the new value.

Eventually, when "delete node" happens, whatever
resources were in use in Node::_value will be freed.

So I don't think you have to do anything with point (b).
Your problem, if you have one, is operator=.  Those are
hard to get right.

— John