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Subject: C++ help

Author: James Robertson

Date: 13:33:25 06/09/00


Will my program get sick if I write:

int *a = new int[64];
int *b = a;
....
delete [] b;

?

This question stems from my lack of knowledge about how a program knows how much
memory it has allocated at runtime. That is to say, where does the program store
the size of a so the memory will be freed if you call delete []? If you try to
free this memory from another pointer (b) will it still know that 64 ints need
to be deleted?

James



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