[Valgrind-users] Re: false positive new[]/delete mismatch ??

[Melchior F. <mf...@kd...>]

* Zeljko Vrba -- Monday 04 August 2003 15:36:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:39:15PM +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > 1209:  void* pData = new unsigned char[embeddedItem.iDataSize];
> >        ...
> > 1217:  delete[] pData;

> You can't use either delete nor delete[] on void* since the compiler must
> know the exact type in order to call destructor for the object(s)

Well, the compiler does very well know the type. It was the one
who allocated it, remember?  :-} 
I wasn't sure about this, and Stroustrup didn't tell me.
 
 
 
> So valgrind is not wrong, your code is.

It isn't =my= code. I'm just debugging someone else's.

m.



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