Re: Passing arrays to C funcions
On 2007-09-04 17:54, ds wrote:
Hi all,
I have to pass an array of doubles to a legacy C function that copies
some data using memcpy. The code would look like this:
extern "C"{
void legacyCFunctionFill(void* arg);
}
...
int number=5;
double *my_array=(double*)calloc(number,sizeof(double));
legacyCFunctionFill((void*)my_array);
// Do sth useful
free(my_array);
The question is: if I change calloc() and free() with new and delete
[] will there be any issues, including portability issues? At first it
seems that it works, having tested that in my program. But I am not
sure if the memory allocated by calloc is the same and can be used the
same way as the memory allocated with new, especially on windows,
Linux and Sun.
As long as legacyCFunctionFill() does not try to deallocate the memory
using free() everything is fine. There is no difference in the memory
but you can not allocate memory with malloc and deallocate it with
delete (or the other way around).
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