Re: Fixing a memory leak

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:35

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"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Try this:
<snip>

That is not valid.  The memory was allocated as a char[] but then you're
freeing it as a People* instead.  They must match.  So the memory has to be
freed as a char* using delete[] instead:

    char *pBuf = ReadFileToBuffer("Database.dat", &FileSize);
    if( pBuf )
    {
        PeopleType *People = (PeopleType*)pBuf;
        // use People as needed

        delete[] pBuf;
    }

> BTW: It is permissable to delete a NULL pointer in C++

Yes.


Gambit

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