Char*

[tryptik]

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.

[Ian Collins]

tr*****@gmail.com 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.

[Jacek Dziedzic]

tr*****@gmail.com 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.