Re: anything wrong with this code?

From:
"=?iso-8859-1?q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?=" <eriwik@student.chalmers.se>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
6 Mar 2007 23:35:22 -0800
Message-ID:
<1173252922.471623.159850@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com>
On 7 Mar, 08:21, "hijkl" <s_mah...@yahoo.com> wrote:

hey guys
anything wrong with this code??
if it is then what?


First of all you are using pointers, which is generally no a good
idea. And second, you use an array, we generally prefer that you use a
vector.

int *array(int n){
         return new int(n);


  return new int[n];

 }
 int main(){
         int *p = array(10);
         for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {


It is often preferred to use ++i instead, which is at least as fast as
i++ but can potentially be faster, especially when working with
iterators instead of integers.

                 p[i] = 0;
         }
         printf( "%d\n", p[0] );


Memory leak, you forgot to free the memory you allocated on the first
call to array(), insert delete[] p;

         p = array(10);
         printf( "%d\n", p[0] );
         return 0;
 }


I fail to see the point of your code, is it to show that a variable
allocated with new is uninitialized?

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