Re: Link List
On Feb 22, 9:29 am, "Jack" <accpac...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Ok, so below is a little code I just wrote up. I am wondering when I
delete temp2, does it actually delete all the data that temp2 is
pointing to or not?
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
struct myStruct {
int Id;
bool visited;
myStruct *next;
};
int main (){
myStruct *head = NULL;
myStruct *temp2 = NULL;
myStruct *temp = new myStruct;
head = temp;
cout << "Now creating the links\n";
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){
temp->Id = i;
temp->visited = false;
cout << temp->Id << " ";
temp2 = temp;
temp = new myStruct;
temp2->next = temp;
}
//LETS SAY WE WANT TO DELETE ITEM NUMBER 6
temp = head;
cout << "\nNow deleting the link 6\n";
while ( (temp->next != NULL) && (temp->Id !=5) ){
cout << temp->Id << " ";
temp = temp->next;
}
temp2 = temp->next;
temp->next = temp->next->next;
delete (temp2); //DOES THIS DELETE ALL THE DATA THAT
TEMP2 IS POINTING TO?
The delete does free the memory and unlniking as already mentioned is
correct.
But the delete here does not *delete the data* at the memory just
freed. If you still keep the address somwhere and access it later
there is every liklihood that you data might still be there. It will
be there untill overwritten by some other data, probably when you
create a new node in the list and populate the data in it.
Delete just says that the memory allocated is no longer in use and
can be allocated again.
cout << "\nNow reprinting... \n";
temp = head;
while(temp->next != NULL){
cout << temp->Id << " ";
temp = temp->next;
}
return 0;
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