Re: How does this work?
tommy.hinks@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 10, 3:43 pm, "doublemaster...@gmail.com"
<doublemaster...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 10, 7:58 pm, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
doublemaster...@gmail.com wrote:
new char[0] //
char str[0];
what will happen? will the memory allocated? how to delete?
Dynamically allocating an array of size 0 is OK, the system will
allocate the memory (of size 0, for all you care, since you ask it to do
that), but the requirement of the language is that the pointer you get
is otherwise perfectly valid, and requires to be delete[]'ed.
Declaring an array of 0 elements was not legal last time I looked.
V
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Zero bytes will be allocated?? if do
new char[0] many times,we will be getting the pointer which points to
same location?
MS Visual Studio will give an error for declaring an array of zero
size, which "suggests" that this is illegal.
Allocating zero bytes and declaring a zero-size array are two different
things, Tommy.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char zerosizedarray[0]; // error - not allowed
char *p = new char[argc - 1]; // perfectly fine,
// even if 'argc' is 1
delete[] p;
}
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