Re: question about new and delete operator

From:
LiDongning <lidongning@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<51523395-c4f8-44b5-8fe3-e2d3fef8dc16@p29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 4, 6:27 am, Lars Tetzlaff <lars.tetzl...@gmx.net> wrote:

LiDongning schrieb:

Hi,
I'm working on a class which allocate some memory to store an array
(pointed by a pointer p_data). In constructor I use new to do the
allocation, in destructer I use delete to free the memory. In one
member function I wan to do something with the data (say, sort). In
that case, inside that function, I plan to allocate a piece memory to
store the processed data (p_processed), then free the original memory
(p_data), and point the p_data to p_process. The code will be
something like attached below. My question is, can i do something like
in the last two lines of code? Will this cause a memory leak or any
harmful effect? Thanks very much!


I would recommend to use std::vector like this:

#include <vector>

template <class T>
class data
{
  std::vector<T> m_data;
public:
  data(int, T*);
  void process();

};

template <class T>
data<T>::data(int in_n, T* in_data)
: m_data( in_data, in_data + in_n )
{

}


Exactly! Thanks much!

template <class T>
void data<T>::process()
{
  std::vector<T> processed( m_data.begin(), m_data.end() );
  // do something with your copy

  // assign processed data to m_data
  m_data.swap( processed );

}

This code is shorter *and* exception safe.

Lars

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