Re: NULL pointer in overloaded operator delete []
Rahul wrote:
Please read the following code
class Test{
public:
void * operator new [] (size_t t)
{ return malloc(t); }
void operator delete [] (void *p)
{ free(p); }
};
void main () {
Test *p= 0;
delete [] p;
/* What should happen here, Should the call go inside Test::operator
delete []. Because what I learned from books is that deleting a NULL
pointer is safe (calling ::operator delete[] on a NULL pointer does
not crash). But here it causes a crash on Sun CC because it gets
inside Test::operator delete [] whereas on VC++ and g++ it doesn't.
Should I put a check in Test::operator delete [] for "p!
=NULL"? Is Sun CC behaving as per the C++ standard?
The behaviour of your program is undefined. 'main' must return the type
'int':
int main() {
Seriously, though, everything should be OK because 'free' is explicitly
specified as a NOP if its argument is a null pointer.
You need to investigate further why on Sun it doesn't go into the
overloaded operator delete[]. And even if you don't overload, the
deletion (using 'delete' or 'delete[]') is explicitly defined as OK if
the argument is a null pointer.
*/
}
Thanks in advance
V
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