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From: peb@Autodesk.COM (Paul Baclaski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ``delete[]p'' -- where is the actual size of *p stored?
Summary: that depends upon what version of cfront you have
Message-ID: <127@autodesk.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 22:05:05 GMT
References: <CLINE.90Aug21134409@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu> <56956@microsoft.UUCP> <1180@fornax.UUCP>
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In article <1180@fornax.UUCP>, miron@fornax.UUCP (Miron Cuperman) writes:
> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
> 
> >In article <CLINE.90Aug21134409@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu> cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
> >>	  B* p = new D[100];
> >>	  delete [] p;
> ...  Therefore the above syntax is correct.
> From what I understand, the C++ implementation must save the length of
> the array in bytes, and deallocate it accordingly.

This is not true of V1.2 of cfront, but is true for 2.1.  I am not 
sure about 2.0.  C++ *is* converging on the "right way", but it 
does take time.


Paul E. Baclaski
peb@autodesk.com