In order to do this (and I'm not sure why you would), you would have to hold that variable as a pointer, and then allocate an object with "new" at the proper moment. Now that you'd used new, you need to use delete at some point, or use a smart pointer. Why are you trying to do this?
OK, I really wanted to do it without a pointer. Is there no other way?Originally Posted by brewbuck
The reason I'm doing it is that this class is an interface into data stored in TLS and if it's constructed with an argument, it saves that to TLS otherwise it fchecks if the data is in the TLS and if not it creates the data from a configuration and stores that.
Perhaps a class is not really the right solution here. Perhaps just create a global SetOwner() function which does this "stuff" depending on whether it was passed an argument or not. A class really, really wants to construct all of its members, so doing goofy stuff to try to avoid that behavior is probably a sign that a class is not the right design.
