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Article #8Re: delete [n] ptr warning
From: Joe Buck
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 23:39
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 23:39
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In article <1992Oct28.221705.4235@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> troy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Troy Cauble) writes: >g++ (2.2.2) warns me that the form > > delete [n] ptr > >is anachronistic. Is this true? Says who? That >is, are the standards moving in that direction? The ARM (Ellis and Stroustrup's Annotated C++ Reference Manual) says so. The ANSI C++ standardization committee has adopted this as the base document for the standard. >Will ::operator delete() know to call multiple >destructors in the array case? Any pitfalls >I should be aware of? You must use the syntax delete [] ptr The implementation is responsible for knowing how many objects there are. >Forgive me if these are documented questions. I don't >have TeX, and have not figured out how to read any of >the TeX based gcc/gdb documentation... It's documented, but not in the Gnu documentation. This is explained in any up-to-date C++ book. If you have an old one, you'll need to get a new one. -- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!agate!forney.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help Subject: Re: delete [n] ptr warning Date: 28 Oct 1992 23:39:15 GMT Organization: U. C. Berkeley Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1cn8b3INN7n0@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Oct28.221705.4235@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: forney.berkeley.edu