Re: Checking whether a pointer has been deleted
How does one test whether a pointer has been deleted or not.
You can always zero your pointers after a delete, e.g:
MyClass* p = new myClass();
delete p;
p = 0;
if (p) // ...
one always had to check with pointers but with references there is never a
need to. Or am I missing something here?
It depends. You can have invalid references too, e.g:
MyClass* p = new myClass();
delete p;
CallByRef(*p);
//...
void CallByRef(MyClass &p) {
p->something; // invalid access
}
You can use smart pointers too, see
http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm, they are better
checked and better behaved after a 'deletion'.
Zedzed wrote:
Hi
Having discovered that the following is undefined:
MyClass* p = new myClass();
delete p;
if (p) //behaviour is not defined
How does one test whether a pointer has been deleted or not. I always
thought that that was the benefit of references over pointers - one
always had to check with pointers but with references there is never a
need to. Or am I missing something here?
tx
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