Re: new without delete: what will happen

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In find these days that I rarely write "new" for arrays. CString, CByteArray, and other
array classes using SetSize are good substitutes (my client base doesn't use or want
std::, which in many cases would be even nicer).

Mostly I use 'new' for class objects that have a lifetime longer than the scope of a
function, such as values added to the ItemData of a CLIstBox or CComboBox or the LPARAM of
a CListCtrl. Then I write the DeleteItem code immediately.

I remember when memory leaks were a problem; as Doug points out, with good programming
practice, they hardly ever exist.
joe

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:05:27 -0500, "Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:46:20 -0500, Doug Harrison [MVP] wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, I use new regularly, but I hardly ever write delete, and yet I can't
>> remember the last time I leaked memory. How can this be? I use smart
>> pointers and classes such as std::vector extensively.
>
>To clarify, I use new mainly for scalars that I store in smart pointers,
>while std::vector takes the place of array new.

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