memset structure with std::string contained

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No, you cant, it would overwrite the internal state of the string and make bad things happen. You could wrap all the POD stuff in a seperate struct and put that in your current one, that way you could memset that and let the string default construct.

Edit: Just to clarify, the string will almost certainly be storing a pointer to the memory its allocated for storage. The string’s constructor will always have run before you can memset it (even if you memset this in the constructor of your type, the string constructor would run first). So you would be overwriting this pointer value, and instead of pointing to its storage, it would a pointer to NULL, or some other almost definitely invalid value.

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