| Re: Is delete dangerous, when delete[] is appropriate? |
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Group: comp.lang.c++.moderated · Group Profile
Author: peter koch larsenpeter koch larsen Date: Jul 10, 2007 08:39
On 10 Jul., 14:28, ted trhj.homeunix.net> wrote:> If I use delete, when delete[] is correct, can the consequence be
> anything
> worse than a memory leak?
Yes. What happens is not specified, but typical behaviour includes
memory leaks, missing destructor calls, heap corruption and crash.
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> E.g.
> int* pi = new int[2];
> delete pi; // delete[] is correct
>
There's practically never any reason to use new[]. Prefer using
std::vector which has very low overhead and offers additional safety
and lots of extra goodies such as resizing.
/Peter
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