Re: Copy Constructor
Roy wrote:
On Jul 30, 9:00 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
royash...@gmail.com wrote:
// Destructor
~cpchk(){
cout<<"Destructor called"<<endl;
if(name!=0)
free(name);
}
a=b;
Heres the code i am talking about , Kindly comment .
Two serious errors:
You attempt to free name twice (why the check for 0?), whether or not it
was allocated by malloc.
--
Ian Collins.
Hi Ian ,
I have checked for 0 , as in the constructor i equate the pointer to
0 , that way my program knows how to check
against freeing a pointer not allocated memory .
Freeing NULL is a no-op, so you don't have to check.
In your case, you have no way of telling whether the name points to
dynamic memory.
I didn't get your point of freeing name twice . There are two
different Objects in the program . Both need to
have their memory freed ?
Once you assign one to the other, both have a name pointer pointing to
the same address. Try printing the pointer value in your destructor.
--
Ian Collins.
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