Re: destructor

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

STEVEN MARX <smarx@verizon.net> writes:

> I have an array as a class member which is constructed, using new, in a 
> constructor.

If it really is an array, e.g.

  struct Foo {
     int array[5];
  };

then you can't be using new on it. Likely you have not an array,
but a pointer to an array. Or maybe you have an array of pointers. Or
a pointer to an array of pointers.

Post (reduced) actual code, so we don't have to guess.

> The members of the array are pointers to a some class. Should i
> (must i) create a destructor to explicitly
> delete [] or can i rely on the compiler to take care of this
> thank you.

If you new anything in the constructor, then you *must* take care
of that memory in the destructor.

In addition, you must ensure that either the instance can't be
copied, or that it is copied correctly. See "Effective C++", Item 11.

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