Re: virtual delete for arrays

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From: Steve Clamage
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 16:53

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In article b7k@tango.cs.wustl.edu, schmidt@tango.cs.wustl.edu (Douglas C. Schmidt) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Can someone please clarify something for me?  It would appear that in
>SunC++ 4.0.1 and G++ 2.6.3 a base class pointer cannot be used to
>delete an array of objects of a derived class.  

That's correct. To quote the draft standard on the subject of "delete[]",
"if the dynamic type of the object to be deleted differs from its static
type, the behavior is undefined."
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com

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Subject: Re: virtual delete for arrays
Date: 8 Aug 1995 16:53:36 GMT
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