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mbb@litwin.com (Mark Beyleveld) writes:

>char * x = strdup("abcde");
>char * y = new char[6];
>(void) strcpy(y, "abcde");

>Further down the road, I want to dispose of the data (which is legal,
>since both are dynamically allocated). Do I use free or delete?

Is it not a good idea to use a C library version of strdup (which is
not part of the C Standard anyway) in a C++ program, for exactly this
reason.  If you need strdup, you would be better off writing your own
as a C++ function, possibly giving it another name to reduce confusion
for the readers of the program.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com