Re: Deleting a passed-by-reference object in a function
M. Shoaib Surya wrote:
Hello,
Is it okay to delete an new'ed object in the function that has been
passed-by-reference.
Please check the statement "delete pCalled;" in the following code snippet.
void Test(int& i)
{
int* pCalled = &i;
printf("Address in Called: %d\n", pCalled);
delete pCalled;
}
int main()
{
int* pCaller = new int(10);
printf("Address in Caller: %d\n", pCaller);
Test(*pCaller);
}
The thing is that it is running fine in VC and the pointer also has the same
value. But, what I am wondering is that is it possible that this is a
platform-specific implementation of the compiler and this code might break
on other platforms, or is it a defined behavior and perfectly legal in C++?
Shoaib:
Shouldn't it be
delete [] pCalled;
?
But why don't you pass the pointer directly? Using a reference here may work,
but why do it?
Also, I find this code poor style. Why not just delete the pointer in the
caller? Even better, use std::vector.
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