Destructor not called after destroying object placement-new'ed

Question

I had no clue why this doesn\'t work. The following Function is created by placement new. A function is provided that checks whether it should be destructed, and if

Answer 1

Change your explicit destructor call to

this->~Function();

Currently the ~Function is constructing a "Function" and then calling the ~ bitwise operator, (legal because you have a conversion to bool), and then destructing that, not the called object.