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  • CPalliniC CPallini

    You have always to do your cleanup stuff! :)

    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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    Thanks CPallini! I think you mean we have to delete A, right? regards, George

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      Thanks CPallini! I think you mean we have to delete A, right? regards, George

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      CPallini
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      Yes. :)

      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
      [my articles]

      In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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        Hello everyone, Should I delete memory pointed by pointer a if there is bad_alloc when allocating memory in memory pointed by pointer b? I am not sure whether there will be memory leak if I do not delete a.try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // if a success, but b fail, should we try to delete[] a here to avoid memory leak? }
        thanks in advance, George

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        Eytukan
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        Hello George, nice to see you again. But this time I've got a question for you. Straight to you. Why do are you acting 'quick'-judgemental before someone could actually reply you fully?:~ See here[^] And I've seen many times , anybody who replies to your thread gets a 3 vote. Immediately. Is it a token of acknowledgment to say that you've read the message? :-). I'm really not hurt by that but I'm finding it funny! Why do you do that?


        OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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          Hello everyone, Should I delete memory pointed by pointer a if there is bad_alloc when allocating memory in memory pointed by pointer b? I am not sure whether there will be memory leak if I do not delete a.try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // if a success, but b fail, should we try to delete[] a here to avoid memory leak? }
          thanks in advance, George

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          pierre_ribery
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          In a case like this you should initialize both a and b to 0 before the try clause. You cannot delete a or b at this stage, I assume you will need to use them later, or what was the purpose of allocating them? int* a = NULL; int* b = NULL; try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // Tell the user if a or b failed... } // Do some stuff on a or b // Now delete if they are allocated if(a) delete a[]; if (b) delete b[]; Thanks!

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            Hello everyone, Should I delete memory pointed by pointer a if there is bad_alloc when allocating memory in memory pointed by pointer b? I am not sure whether there will be memory leak if I do not delete a.try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // if a success, but b fail, should we try to delete[] a here to avoid memory leak? }
            thanks in advance, George

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            Hamid Taebi
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            Why you didnt use like this code try { int * a= new int[N]; int * b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; }

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              Why you didnt use like this code try { int * a= new int[N]; int * b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; }

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              Eytukan
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              huh Hamid! :| it's simply because he should have put it like:

              int* a;
              int* b;

              try { a= new int[N]; b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; } wake up! :)


              OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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              • CPalliniC CPallini

                You have always to do your cleanup stuff! :)

                If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                [my articles]

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                But I suggest he should do something like this : if(pMyStuff!=NULL) { delete pMyStuff; } :cool:


                OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                  huh Hamid! :| it's simply because he should have put it like:

                  int* a;
                  int* b;

                  try { a= new int[N]; b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; } wake up! :)


                  OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                  Hamid Taebi
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                  Yeah it was a quick sample. ;)

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                    huh Hamid! :| it's simply because he should have put it like:

                    int* a;
                    int* b;

                    try { a= new int[N]; b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; } wake up! :)


                    OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                    Not like that, see my earlier post. Always initialize pointers!! In this case set them to NULL(0). int* a = NULL; int* b = NULL;

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                      Not like that, see my earlier post. Always initialize pointers!! In this case set them to NULL(0). int* a = NULL; int* b = NULL;

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                      Eytukan
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                      Who said I didn't do it? I'm a c++ programmer. class myclass { int* a; int* b; myclass() { a= NULL; b= NULL; } } ;P


                      OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                      • E Eytukan

                        But I suggest he should do something like this : if(pMyStuff!=NULL) { delete pMyStuff; } :cool:


                        OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                        CPallini
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                        And you are right! :-D

                        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                        [my articles]

                        In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                          Who said I didn't do it? I'm a c++ programmer. class myclass { int* a; int* b; myclass() { a= NULL; b= NULL; } } ;P


                          OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus Best wishes to Rexx[^]

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                          pierre_ribery
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                          Your code said it. Anyway, I think it is pretty important to show it in the code as well.

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                            In a case like this you should initialize both a and b to 0 before the try clause. You cannot delete a or b at this stage, I assume you will need to use them later, or what was the purpose of allocating them? int* a = NULL; int* b = NULL; try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // Tell the user if a or b failed... } // Do some stuff on a or b // Now delete if they are allocated if(a) delete a[]; if (b) delete b[]; Thanks!

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                            Thanks pierre_ribery, I want to confirm with you that your point is we need to delete a or b if they are successful allocated, even if bad_alloc happens (may be caused by other statements), right? regards, George

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                              Why you didnt use like this code try { int * a= new int[N]; int * b= new int[M]; } catch (bad_alloc&) { cout <<"Error allocating memory!"; }

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                              Hi Hamid, I am confused. My question is about whether we need to delete a or b if bad_alloc happens, does your reply has anything related to my question? :-) regards, George

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                              • CPalliniC CPallini

                                Yes. :)

                                If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                [my articles]

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                                George_George
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                                Thanks for your confirmation, CPallini! regards, George

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                                  Hi Hamid, I am confused. My question is about whether we need to delete a or b if bad_alloc happens, does your reply has anything related to my question? :-) regards, George

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                                  My reply was for check does it with success or no (and my suggestion is when you want to allocate or convert use of try/catch block) and when you got error means that it doesnt allocate any thing to variable.

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                                    Thanks pierre_ribery, I want to confirm with you that your point is we need to delete a or b if they are successful allocated, even if bad_alloc happens (may be caused by other statements), right? regards, George

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                                    Yes that was exactly my point! If you have allocated memory, then you have to delete it. Therefore it is vital to initialize your pointers to 0 before using them. Cheers, Pierre

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                                      My reply was for check does it with success or no (and my suggestion is when you want to allocate or convert use of try/catch block) and when you got error means that it doesnt allocate any thing to variable.

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                                      George_George
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                                      Thanks Hamid, I have developed a couple of samples, which specific case do you think I need to check? regards, George

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                                        Yes that was exactly my point! If you have allocated memory, then you have to delete it. Therefore it is vital to initialize your pointers to 0 before using them. Cheers, Pierre

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                                        George_George
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                                        Thanks for your advice, Pierre! regards, George

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                                          Thanks Hamid, I have developed a couple of samples, which specific case do you think I need to check? regards, George

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                                          Hamid Taebi
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                                          If you check each block of your program(for exmaple is hwnd valid,etc) you can almost(not always) sure that you didnt get an exception when you run your program

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