Re: char* memory leak with emulator 3.5

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From: Ben Combee
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:34

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In article <30890494.0210080905.64899638@posting.google.com>, 
david_ladanyi@yahoo.com says...
> When I put in a "delete psaStr" line it produced a memory error
> because the pointer was being used by the field. I managed to fix the
> problem by declaring "char psaStr[6];" instead of "char* psaStr = new
> char[6];"

Is psaStr a local variable or a global?  If its local, you might have 
just passed a pointer to stack space into a global structure -- this is 
bad, as that space can and will be used for other variables after the 
current function exits.
-- 
Ben Combee <bcombee@metrowerks.com>
CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/

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From: Ben Combee <combee@techwood.org>
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Subject: Re: char* memory leak with emulator 3.5
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