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From: kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: delete [] and Turbo C++
Keywords: delete class []
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.142531.28104@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 90 14:25:31 GMT
References: <641@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Reply-To: kearns@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
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Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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In article <641@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems) writes:
>When shifting from 2.0 to 2.1 I found myself in problems with:
>
>func(){
>	classtype *m = new classtype[10];
>
>	delete[10] m;
>}
>
>In 2.0 this works fine, in 2.1 not, that compilers suggests:
>
>	delete [] m;
>


I have noticed that Turbo C++ does not allow the following line
with "delete":

int * p = new int[50];
delete [50] p;

while it does like the following:

MyClass * p = new MyClass[50];
delete [50] p;

The difference?  One has a destructor, and the other does not, near
as I can figure out.  BUG!

-steve