Re: [GD-Windows] memory leak?

[Mickael P. <mpo...@ed...>]

Colin Fahey wrote:
> [...]
> I have three wild guesses about what you might be
> observing:
> 
> [A] Best guess:  You are doing "new" and "delete"
> on a regular "struct", instead of a "class".
> This may simply allocate raw bytes with the
> same size as your structure.  This means that
> the "std::vector<float> array" member is NOT
> CONSTRUCTED, but is simply given space to exist.
> Even though C++ compilers may implement
> "struct" as "class", I don't know if "new" will
> CONSTRUCT members of a "struct".
> Anyhow, I'm guessing that the "delete" calls
> aren't calling the destructor of the "array"
> object within the "struct" (TestObj).
> 
> EXPERIMENT:
> Change the "struct" to "class" (TestObj), and
> just add "public:".  Don't make any other changes.
>
> [...]

There is absolutely no difference in C++ between class
and struct, except the fact that class are private by
default, and struct are public by default.

Construction/destruction behavior should be the same.


    Mickael Pointier