Re: Deleting a passed-by-reference object in a function
David Wilkinson wrote:
M. Shoaib Surya wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for your reply
I agree that the code is poor style and infact I dont expect any
situations to do this kind of thing. But, I found this in a
complex piece of code that somewhat translated to this case, so I
wrote this code snippet to get a clear picture of this, by
checking the value of the memory location pointed by the variable
after it has been passed to the function. So, just for the sake of
my own knowledge, I wanted to know if
this thing is perfectly legal in C++ or not. It is working fine in
VC, but can this be considered something specific to the
implementation of the compiler, and is it possible that this might
break on some other platform? Besides that, why should it be
"delete [] pCalled;" when it is not
an array and pCaller is just a scalar pointer-variable?
Shoaib:
Yes, sorry, I misread your code as
int* pCaller = new int[10];
Your code was correct, but error-prone and bad style, IMHO.
The fact that you misread it, shows just how bad it is. :-)
Bo Persson
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