Re: Crash in erasing element of a list.
Noah Roberts wrote:
mahajan.vibhor@gmail.com wrote:
I have a list of pointers. e.g
A* a = new A(); // A is a class
stl::list<A*> list_a;
I am inserting object of class in the after allocating memeory thru new
operator.
But when i want to erase all elements from the list. my progam crashes.
I delete element by using a iterator.
A * temp = NULL;
stl::list<A*>::iterator Iter,
stl::list<A*>::iterator IterTemp;
for( Iter = list_a.begin() ; Iter != list_a.end() ; ){
Iter = list_a.begin();
temp = *Iter;
IterTemp = Iter;
Iter++;
list_a.erase(IterTemp);
delete temp;
}
Iter is invalid after the erase.
instead of Iter++; list_a.erase() do this:
Iter = list_a.erase(Iter);
At erase line my program crashes and debugger shows some exception in
erase function.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Vibhor Mahajan
Really, when you want to do that kind of things, the *best* way to go
IMHO is :
std::list<A*>::iterator it;
for(it = list_a.begin() ; it != list_a.end() ; ++it)
{
delete *it;
}
list_a.clear();
It will be much faster and much more readable.
Pierre
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