Re: delete the dynamically allocated memory twice causes error

From:
Junhui Tong <tongjunhui@live.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:32 +0800
Message-ID:
<f89h7k$75u$1@aioe.org>
BobR wrote:
[snip]

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
int main(){
   std::vector<int> pi( 1, 12 );
   // Tong "Another example is that C++ also won't check whether
   // an array index is out of bound."
   // And what does '.at()' do?

but vector is not the built-in `array'.

   std::cout << pi.at(0);
   return 0;
   }

Much 'easier'! How much 'efficiency' did that give up?

Yes, `at' lose efficiency, here is a typical implementation of vector<>::at:
    const_reference at(size_type _Pos) const
        {
        if (size() <= _Pos) // waste an extra compare here
            _Xran();
        return (*(begin() + _Pos));
        }

Now add some more:

  int *pi = new int(12);
  int *pi2 = new int(12);
  // ....
  int *pi299 = new int(12);
  int *pi300 = new int(12);
  // yeah, array is better, but you still need to 'delete[]'
vs.
   std::vector<int> pi( 300, 12 );

Now where's your 'efficiency'?
Which would you choose?


When I talk "C++", I only mean the syntax, not including the extra libraries
such as STL, though it's a part of C++.
sorry for my poor english, but When I talk "efficiency", I only mean the
runtime efficiency.

'C++' was designed to be [1] a faster way to program ('C'). That's the

a faster way to program without losing efficiency

'efficiency'!

May be we consider `efficiency' in different aspects.

[1] among other considerations (type safety?). <G>
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