How to explicitly call a namespace-qualified destructor?

Question

I am surprised that the following simple code won\'t compile (with gcc, version 4.8.1)

#include 
void test()
{
  std::string* p = new std::stri         


        

Answer 1

2019 update: Starting from C++17, you can use std::destroy_at as follows:

std::destroy_at(p);

It's much simpler and follows the principle of not using "primitive constructs" (such as new / delete expressions) in modern C++.