ANSI C++ forbids array size in vector delete

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2 total messages Started by David Lovell Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:38

#580

Author: David Lovell
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:38

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Hi there,
We've just put the latest releases of gcc and libg++ up and now I'm bashing
some old code into shape. I know this is only a warning message but I'd like
to know how to get rid of it (apart from turning all the warnings off!).

The message in question has the form:
matrix.C:63: warning: ANSI C++ forbids array size in vector delete

where matrix.C:63 is:
delete [storage] store;

where store is allocated by:
store = new double [storage];

Am I right to assume that C++ no longer needs "array size in vector delete"?
I just bought a "recent" (1991) C++ text, "C++: the Complete Reference" by
Herbert Schildt which says at the top of page 334

"When an array allocated by using new is released, delete must be told how
many elements there are in the array."

Which poses the question, which C++ reference should GNU users refer to?
Thanks in advance for all your helpful replies.

David
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Re: ANSI C++ forbids array size in vector delete

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Author: Jason Merrill
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:24

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In article <dlovell.722072326@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> dlovell@elec.uq.oz.au (David Lovell) writes:

>Which poses the question, which C++ reference should GNU users refer to?

The answer is, of course (until ANSI releases a reference document), the
Annotated C++ Reference Manual by Margaret A. Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup.
This is the ANSI base document.

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Jason Merrill					jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
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