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From: ssr@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Steve S. Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: delete []
Keywords: arrays, new&delete
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Date: 1 Aug 90 13:43:07 GMT
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In article <4942@pegasus.ATT.COM> hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) writes:
>
>    "X *x = new X[m]" means to allocate an array of objects of type X, using
>    only the global operator ::new(), invoke the appropriate constructor for
>    x[0] through x[m-1], and assign a pointer to the array to the pointer x.
>    The 1990 definition of C++ also mandates that the C++ environment
>    remember the value m associated with that pointer.
>

Sorry, but I don't have docs for 2.1 available.  Is there any way for
me to get at the size of that array without remembering it thru my
code?  That way I could, say, iterate over all elements of the array
without having a stupid variable like n_x around.

Steve