Re: Fixing a memory leak

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From: Terry
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:24

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Great, thanks a lot, no more codeguard errors.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.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;
>     }

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