Re: deleting dynamically allocated objects in a container
"subramanian100in@yahoo.com, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com> wrote:
I get compilation error for this 'transform' call. Here is the
complete modified program z.cpp:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
class Test
{
public:
explicit Test(int arg = 0);
~Test();
private:
int val;
};
inline Test::Test(int arg) : val(arg)
{
cout << "From Test ctor: " << val << endl;
}
inline Test::~Test()
{
cout << "From Test dtor: " << val << endl;
}
template <typename T>
T* delete_ptr(T* p)
{
delete p;
return 0;
}
int main()
{
typedef vector<Test*> Container;
Container c;
c.push_back(new Test(100));
c.push_back(new Test(200));
c.push_back(new Test(300));
transform(c.begin(), c.end(), c.begin(), &delete_ptr);
// just to ensure the element values are zero, print them
cout << c[0] << " " << c[1] << " " << c[2] << endl;
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
I compiled this program with g++3.4.3 as
g++ -std=c++98 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra z.cpp
It generated the following compilation error:
z.cpp: In function `int main()':
z.cpp:42: error: no matching function for call to
`transform(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Test**, std::vector<Test*,
std::allocator<Test*> > >, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Test**,
std::vector<Test*, std::allocator<Test*> > >,
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Test**, std::vector<Test*,
std::allocator<Test*> > >, <unknown type>)'
Kindly help me to make this modified program compile fine and produce
the expected result which I stated at the beginning of OP.
try:
transform(c.begin(), c.end(), c.begin(), &delete_ptr<Test>);
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