Re: glibc detected: double free or corruption

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:45:18 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<6e4cdb75-f97d-45c4-b120-b3230047a8f5@k24g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 15, 4:25 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

chuan wrote:

I define a class with a private dynamical member

Class A
{
 double *data;
public:
 A();
 ~A();
}

In constructor I assign a block memory to data,

A::A(){
 data = new double [size];
}

and delete it in the desturctor

A::~A(){
 delete [] data;
}

So far so good, but when I trying to overload some
arithmetic operator (+ or /), I receive the "glibc detected:
double free or corruption" error. Here is my code

A A::operator+(A add){
 A tmp;
 for (int i=0; i<size; i++)
        tmp[i] = this->data[i] + add.data[i];
 return tmp;
}

Please give me a hint.


Google "the rule of three c++" (without quotes, of course).


Actually, putting the quotes around "rule of three" might not be
a bad idea.

More generally, of course, I'd ask why he was using new[] and
delete[] to begin with. They're almost always a sign of bad
implementation; in this case, I fail to see why
std::vector<double> wouldn't do the job, much better.

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