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Question relating to delete.

georgewashere (244)
What is the point in delete beany.str? I thought deletion was only to be used with "new" dynamic memory?


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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include <cstring> // for strlen(), & strcpy();
struct stringy
{
    char * str;
    int ct;
};
int main()
{
    ....
    ...
    delete [] beany.str;
    return 0;
}
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hamsterman (4538)
Are you sure there wasn't a new in .... part? If there wasn't, unless str was initialized to 0, this should segfault.
georgewashere (244)
It was actually a student's code and I often look to him for advice. I wasn't sure why he put that in there because there was no previous new and wasn't sure if I was missing some sort of functionality for the delete feature.
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