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This may be a dumb question, but...

I have heard that if you declare a char* dynamically, you do not need
to delete it. For example:

{
char* temp = new char[100];

//Do stuff...

//Do you need to delete?
//delete [] temp;
}

Is this true? Will you not get a memory leak if you fail to delete[] a
char*?

Thanks.

Nov 4 '06 #1
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tr*****@gmail.c om wrote:
This may be a dumb question, but...

I have heard that if you declare a char* dynamically, you do not need
From whom? Just so we know who to ignore.

Everything you allocate with new has to be freed with delete.

--
Ian Collins.
Nov 4 '06 #2
tr*****@gmail.c om wrote:
This may be a dumb question, but...

I have heard that if you declare a char* dynamically, you do not need
to delete it. For example:

{
char* temp = new char[100];

//Do stuff...

//Do you need to delete?
//delete [] temp;
}

Is this true? Will you not get a memory leak if you fail to delete[] a
char*?
You need to delete[] or else get a memory leak.
Well, in fact the OS will probably release the memory for you
after your program terminates, but you should delete[]
it anyway.

HTH,
- J.
Nov 4 '06 #3

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