Pointer deletion question

[Marcus]

Hi, when I try and delete a pointer in another class I get out of
memory errors. Why does this fail? Is it not ok to do this?

A.cpp
void A::foo(){
new MyObject *pObj = new MyObject;
B b;
b.foo2(pObj);
}
///
B.cpp
void B:foo2(MyObject *pObj){
//do something
delete pObj;
}

[John Harrison]

Marcus wrote:

Hi, when I try and delete a pointer in another class I get out of
memory errors. Why does this fail? Is it not ok to do this?

A.cpp
void A::foo(){
new MyObject *pObj = new MyObject;
B b;
b.foo2(pObj);
}
///
B.cpp
void B:foo2(MyObject *pObj){
//do something
delete pObj;
}

It's legal to do it, although it's not usually considered good style.
But it fails for you because you have a bug somewhere in your program.

As is commonly the case the bug is in the code you didn't post. See
Thomas Tutone's post in the thread 'Multiple substrings = Error' for a
very good explanation of how to post programming problems (and look at
the rest of the thread for how much time gets wasted when you don't
follow these guidelines).

john

[Marcus]

On Feb 15, 11:39 pm, John Harrison <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Marcus wrote:

Hi, when I try and delete a pointer in another class I get out of
memory errors. Why does this fail? Is it not ok to do this?

A.cpp
void A::foo(){
new MyObject *pObj = new MyObject;
B b;
b.foo2(pObj);
}
///
B.cpp
void B:foo2(MyObject *pObj){
//do something
delete pObj;
}

It's legal to do it, although it's not usually considered good style.
But it fails for you because you have a bug somewhere in your program.

As is commonly the case the bug is in the code you didn't post. See
Thomas Tutone's post in the thread 'Multiple substrings = Error' for a
very good explanation of how to post programming problems (and look at
the rest of the thread for how much time gets wasted when you don't
follow these guidelines).

john- Hide quoted text -

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Sorry if you misunderstood... my intention wasn't to have the group
debug my code, I was just wondering if it was legal to do that. Now
that I know that it's ok, I can look elsewhere for my problem. Thank
you for the information, very much appreciated.

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_H=FChn?=]

"Marcus" <mc*******@walla.comwrites:

A.cpp
void A::foo(){
new MyObject *pObj = new MyObject;

^^^
Is this "new" a typo or have you used it deliberately?

Thomas

[Marcus]

On Feb 16, 8:29 am, Thomas Hühn <[e-mail]:

"Marcus" <[e-mail]:

A.cpp
void A::foo(){
new MyObject *pObj = new MyObject;

^^^
Is this "new" a typo or have you used it deliberately?

Thomas

Yeah, sorry that's a typo.