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Defined in header

<memory>

template<classNoThrowForwardIt>voiduninitialized_default_construct(NoThrowForwardItfirst,NoThrowForwardItlast); (1)(since C++17)
(constexpr since C++26)template<classExecutionPolicy,classNoThrowForwardIt>voiduninitialized_default_construct(ExecutionPolicy&&policy,NoThrowForwardItfirst,NoThrowForwardItlast); (2) (since C++17)1) Constructs elements in the destination range [first, last) by

default-initialization

as if by

for(;first!=last;++first)
::new(

voidify

(*first))
typenamestd::iterator_traits<NoThrowForwardIt>::value_type;

If an exception is thrown during the initialization, the objects already constructed are destroyed in an unspecified order.

2) Same as (1), but executed according to policy.

This overload participates in overload resolution only if the value of the following expression is true:

std::is_execution_policy_v<std::decay_t<ExecutionPolicy>>

(until C++20)std::is_execution_policy_v<std::remove_cvref_t<ExecutionPolicy>>

(since C++20)Parameters

first, last - the pair of iterators defining the

range

of elements to initialize policy - the

execution policy

to use Type requirements -NoThrowForwardIt must meet the requirements of

LegacyForwardIterator

. -No increment, assignment, comparison, or indirection through valid instances of NoThrowForwardIt may throw exceptions. Exceptions

2) During the execution process:

If the temporary memory resources required for parallelization are not available,

std::bad_alloc

is thrown.

If an uncaught exception is thrown while accessing objects via an algorithm argument, the behavior is determined by the execution policy (for

standard policies

,

std::terminate

is invoked).

Notes

Feature-test

macroValueStdFeature

__cpp_lib_raw_memory_algorithms

202411L

(C++26)constexpr for

specialized <memory> algorithms

, (

1

)Possible implementation

template<classNoThrowForwardIt>constexprvoiduninitialized_default_construct(NoThrowForwardItfirst,NoThrowForwardItlast){usingValue=typenamestd::iterator_traits<NoThrowForwardIt>::value_type;NoThrowForwardItcurrent=first;try{for(;current!=last;++current){::new(static_cast<void*>(std::addressof(*current)))Value;}}catch(...){std::destroy(first,current);throw;}}Example

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#include<cstring>#include<iostream>#include<memory>#include<string>structS{std::stringm{"Default value"};};intmain(){constexprintn{3};alignas(alignof(S))unsignedcharmem[n*sizeof(S)];try{autofirst{reinterpret_cast<S*>(mem)};autolast{first+n};std::uninitialized_default_construct(first,last);for(autoit{first};it!=last;++it)std::cout<<it->m<<'\n';std::destroy(first,last);}catch(...){std::cout<<"Exception!\n";}// For scalar types, uninitialized_default_construct// generally does not zero-fill the given uninitialized memory area.intv[]{1,2,3,4};constintoriginal[]{1,2,3,4};std::uninitialized_default_construct(std::begin(v),std::end(v));// Maybe undefined behavior, pending CWG 1997 to be resolved.// for (const int i : v)// std::cout << i << ' ';// The result is unspecified.std::cout<<(std::memcmp(v,original,sizeof(v))==0?"Unmodified\n":"Modified\n");}Possible output:

Default value Default value Default value Unmodified See also