我使用它来构造通过alloca()分配到堆栈上的对象。

无耻的宣传:我在这里写过博客。

它可能在使用共享内存时很方便，在其他用途中…例如:http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/interprocess/synchronization_mechanisms.html#interprocess.synchronization_mechanisms.conditions.conditions_anonymous_example

在http://xll.codeplex.com上查看xll项目中的fp.h文件，它解决了喜欢随身携带维度的数组“与编译器的不必要的亲密关系”问题。

typedef struct _FP
{
    unsigned short int rows;
    unsigned short int columns;
    double array[1];        /* Actually, array[rows][columns] */
} FP;

The one place I've run across it is in containers which allocate a contiguous buffer and then fill it with objects as required. As mentioned, std::vector might do this, and I know some versions of MFC CArray and/or CList did this (because that's where I first ran across it). The buffer over-allocation method is a very useful optimization, and placement new is pretty much the only way to construct objects in that scenario. It is also used sometimes to construct objects in memory blocks allocated outside of your direct code.

我在类似的情况下使用过它，尽管它不经常出现。不过，它是c++工具箱中的一个有用工具。

当您想重新初始化全局或静态分配的结构时，它也很有用。

旧的C方法是使用memset()将所有元素设置为0。在c++中，由于虚函数和自定义对象构造函数，无法做到这一点。

所以我有时会用下面的方法

 static Mystruct m;

 for(...)  {
     // re-initialize the structure. Note the use of placement new
     // and the extra parenthesis after Mystruct to force initialization.
     new (&m) Mystruct();

     // do-some work that modifies m's content.
 }

如果你想把分配和初始化分开，这是很有用的。STL使用放置new来创建容器元素。