Re: Exception when deleting pointer in a struct
You may want to make sure you are not deleting it twice. I typically put
something like:
if(pPointer != NULL) {
delete pPointer;
pPointer = NULL;
}
just to be safe. Of course, as others have said, you will want to
initialize the pointers to NULL in the first place.
Tom
"PaulH" <paul.heil@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1154624815.363020.5430@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
I have a program with a structure object that looks like this:
typedef struct _MyStruct {
CString Name;
CString Path;
CMyObj *pObj;
HINSTANCE hModule;
}MyStruct;
I then initialize it as below:
func()
{
MyStruct item;
item.pObj = new CMyObj();
item.Name = _T("Some Name");
item.Path = _T("Some Path");
item.hModule = AfxLoadLibrary(_T("Mylib.dll"));
if (!VerifySomething())
{
//unload and cleanup
delete item.pObj; //Exception occurs here
AfxFreeLibrary(item.hModule);
}
}
But, when I do the "delete item.pObj;" call, I sometimes (not always)
get an exception. This only happens in release mode, not in debug.
Does anybody know what's going on here?
Thanks,
PaulH
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