[Possible BUG and a fix] Re[2]: Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Fri Mar 22 20:33:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@gmx.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:03 AM

>   strcpy (dp, dots);
>   delete[] dots;
>   key = String (dp);
> 
> LOOK HERE - This is not right - we should delete at the base 
> of the block, not somewhere in the middle of it.
>   delete[] dp;
> 
> We can do something like that
> char *dp = ....
> char *dp_save = dp;
> 
>  ....
> 
>  delete[] dp_save;

Huh? delete[]dp; is the last reference to dp. delete[]dots; is the last
reference to dots. Whats the problem?

Rob



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