Re: question about new and delete operator
On Jul 5, 10:39 pm, Hendrik Schober <spamt...@gmx.de> wrote:
Lars Tetzlaff wrote:
LiDongning schrieb:
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 )
{
}
Why 'int'? Will there ever be a sequence of -5 bytes?
Because int is the "standard" type for integral values in C++.
Anything else should only be used if int won't do the job; the
only justification for not using int here would be that there
might be sequences of more that INT_MAX bytes.
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