Re: delete(this)
On Feb 3, 2:33 pm, Rolf Magnus <ramag...@t-online.de> wrote:
Rahul wrote:
I was wondering what the standard says about the following,
class test
{
public: test()
{
delete(this);
}
~test()
{
delete(this);
}
};
int main()
{
test object;
}
It says that this code has undefined behavior. You must not
delete objects that haven't been created using new.
Amongst other things. Think of what will happen in a new
expresssion: "new test". I don't think deleting the return
value of new is really a good idea either. And of course, if
you call delete on a pointer to test, you'll end up double
deleting.
Delete this is pretty much a standard idiom, but not from the
constructor or the destructor.
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