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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ``delete[]p'' -- where is the actual size of *p stored?
Message-ID: <56956@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 19:26:05 GMT
References: <CLINE.90Aug21134409@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <CLINE.90Aug21134409@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu> cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
>	main()
>	{
>	  B* p = new D[100];
>	  //...
>	  delete [] p;
>	}

C++ will already "do the wrong thing" with any attempts to address the d's
referred to by p, thus rendering any problems with delete [] p moot.
The right thing is for a compiler to issue a stern warning on the
new array statement assigned to an incompatible pointer.