Re: memory leak in the code?
On 2008-01-05 16:04, George2 wrote:
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.
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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?
}
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Yes, but what about if you get a bad_alloc when allocating a? Then you
will try to delete whatever memory that the garbage in a points to. To
prevent this use something like this instead:
try {
int* a = 0;
a = new int[N];
int* b = new int[N];
}
catch (bad_alloc)
{
delete[] a;
}
Or use some kind of smart pointer, in which case you do not need to try-
block since the pointers will free any memory if the exception is thrown.
auto_ptr<int> a = new int[N];
auto_ptr<int> b = new int[N];
Note also that depending on what type of application you are writing it
might be useless to catch bad_alloc (except for diagnostic purposes)
since it can be quite hard to recover from. In all applications I have
written a bad_alloc is a terminal failure.
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