Re: memory allocation problems


"Simon Trew" <ten.enagro@werts> wrote in message
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>> (I take it you *are* remembering the [] in the delete statement?)
>
> On VC6 and 7.0 implementations (haven't tried it on 7.1 or 8b2),
> it magically works anyway. It's undefined behavior, of course, but
> it's unlikely to cause this particular bug.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

I'll now try to forget I do and go on writing correct code :-)

Dave
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