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Re: A C++ question regarding the delete operator
From: "Chris Sekula" <chriss@turnpikeglobal.com>
To: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: [ECOS] A C++ question regarding the delete operator
> Recently, I came across some code for a linked list where a pointer to a
> structure is declared locally in a function and initialized. Later in
> the function, the 'delete' operator is used on the pointer, yet the
> 'new' operator was never used to allocate any memory on the heap.
>
> For example:
>
> void fun
> {
> struct ListNode* temp;
> temp = head // head is a member of the Linked List class
>
> /// more code ///
>
> delete temp;
> };
>
> Will there be any adverse affects if delete is used on the pointer
> although the new operator had never been invoked?
Chris,
This is fine as long as the pointer "head" has been allocated using
"new" sometime in the past, peharps in another call when the
linked list was created.
Rosimildo.