vector Deallocation

[yoonkwun]

A class of mine has this member: std::vector<Foo*> foo; where Foo is a class.

Then somewhere in my code, foo.push_back(new Foo); is called.

If I wanted to properly delete this, would foo.erase(foo.begin()); deallocate the contents of the allocated object or only delete the pointer to it?

[Bazzy]

No, everything allocated with new must be destructed with delete ( unless you are using smart pointers of some kind )

[jsmith]

It will _not_ call Foo's destructor, nor will it delete the pointer (free the memory).

This is the purpose of boost::ptr_vector in the boost.ptr_container library.