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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Is it okay to use delete after malloc?
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:06:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.150219.28884@athena.mit.edu>
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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ahodgson@athena.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson) writes:

>If I create a string using one of the library routines such as strdup,
>is it then acceptable to use delete, or is free() required?

Using 'delete' on a pointer is not guaranteed to work if the pointer
was not obtained from  'new'.  If space is acquired by malloc(), you
should return it with free().
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com