Listing 13 Constructing and destroying static class instances

class X
{
public:
    X()
    {}
    ~X()
    {}

public:
    void func1()
    {}
    void func2()
    {}
};

void *operator new(size_t /* si */, void *pv)
{
    return pv;
}

void operator delete (void *pv, void *)
{
}

extern "C" int __cdecl atexit(void (__cdecl *)(void))
{
    // Do nothing

    return 0;
}

X   x;  // The static instance


int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE,
                     HINSTANCE,
                     LPSTR ,
                     int)
{
    // In-place construct, using placement new
    new (&_x)X();

    // the code that uses x

    x.func1();

    ...

    x.func2();

    ...

    // Explicitly call the dtor

    _x.~X();

    return 0;
}