Yesterday I saw a question that was asking to prevent creating objects on heap.

After some thoughts, I came out the following:

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo(const Foo& f) {}
    static Foo getAnInstance()
    {
        return Foo();
    }
private:
    Foo() {}
};

But this can only guarantee the first object is on stack and it can’t go further because there is a public copy ctor.

I haven't seen the point of the question, but it's fun to think about; so my question: Is there a way to do so?

methods of a class are never ever on the stack -- only data objects go there.

int main()
{
    Foo f; // object f goes on the stack, but not the methods of that object.
}

Thank you, Dragon. Does that mean that, on our side (not the client side), to restrict the location of object creation is pointless? I mean that it's client's responsibility to determine where his/her objects should be located.

Thank you, vijayan121. I am going to take a look at the item.

I've gotten the point and solution :)
Thank you guys!

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