Re: Exception when deleting pointer in a struct

From:
"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:49:15 -0700
Message-ID:
<OFizqa0tGHA.2224@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
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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