Re: Dangling Pointer issue
On Apr 14, 1:21 pm, sg <sg.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
In the below code
when we are passing by value in the function
SomeFunc(CDanglingPointers x) why the local object is not created?
class CDanglingPointers
{
public:
int *ptr;
CDanglingPointers(int i)
{
ptr = new int(i);
}
~CDanglingPointers()
{
delete ptr;}
void PrintVal()
{
cout << "The value is " << *ptr;
}
};
void SomeFunc(CDanglingPointers x) => when we are passing by value why
the local object is not created?
{
cout << "Say i am in someFunc " << endl;
}
int main()
{
CDanglingPointers s1 = 10;
SomeFunc(s1);
s1.PrintVal();
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A local copy *does* get created. In this case, the copy is created
using a copy constructor. Since you did not define a copy
constructor, the compiler generated one. The compiler generated copy
constructor almost always doesn't do the correct thing when you have
raw pointer data members. This usually true of the assignment
operator too.
Here's a sample copy constructor implementation:
CDanglingPointers(const CDanglingPointers & rhs)
{
ptr = new int(*rhs.ptr);
}
The assignment operator is left as an exercise.
HTH
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