Re: Are delete and delete[] equivalent?

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

"Aj" <aj.lavin@gmail.com> writes:

> What would be helpful is if someone with knowledge of g++ internals
> could point to the code that answers the question one way or the other.

I don't know 'gcc' internals that well, but you do realize that
'delete[]' calls dtors for all objects, where 'delete' only calls dtor
for the first object.

So, if you 'delete pChar;' where 'delete [] pChar;' was intended,
you are pretty safe (where 'pChar' is of type 'char *', or any
other type with no, or trivial destructor). 

But 'delete pStdString' instead of 'delete [] pStdString;' (where
pStdString is of type 'std::string *'), and you'll leak memory like
a sieve.

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