Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 13:56:56 06/09/00
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On June 09, 2000 at 16:33:25, James Robertson wrote: >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? Yes, I think so. The memory allocation package of the library which you are using manages allocated addresses and corresponding sizes. The names of variables are irrelevant. Uli > >James
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