Re: noob question - destructors - freeing memory...

From:
LR <lruss@superlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:07:54 -0500
Message-ID:
<4efea617$0$17432$cc2e38e6@news.uslec.net>
someone wrote:

On 12/31/2011 04:50 AM, Garrett Hartshaw wrote:

On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:43:28 +0100, someone <newsboost@gmail.com> wrote:

Note: int main()
{
Base * b = new Derived();
throw std::exception();
delete b;
return 0;
}

In the above, the delete expression is never reached, so destructors are
not called.


That is a big problem/issue in my program, I think...

So if I allocate memory in my constructor, and I never call the
destructor and I keep running and exiting, running and exiting the
program, then I end up using all my memory because I never free'd it?


May I ask why you're allocating memory? I mean why are you writing new
explicitly in your code? What are you trying to do?

If this is an issue, a smart pointer (boost::shared_ptr,
boost::scoped_ptr, etc:) should be used.


Ooh, damn...

I hoped, I could avoid having to learn something new and timeconsuming
like boost...

Isn't there an easier solution without including more libraries?


What compiler and version are you using? You may find what you need in
a header that shipped with your compiler.

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