Re: question about new and delete operator
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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