From kde-devel  Fri Aug 08 00:36:03 2003
From: Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:36:03 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: The great destroy mystery.
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Gary Cramblitt wrote:
>In my object destructor, do I need to explicitly destroy object pointers
>declared as member variables and initialized with _new_ or not?=20

Yes. For everything that you new, you must delete and exactly only once.

>I can't=20
>find any consistent info on this. The C++ FAQ says that such objects are
>"automagically" destroyed when the parent object is destroyed.

It was not referring to objects allocated in the heap with new.

>But the FAQ says that calling delete more than once on the same object
>won't hurt.  "Thinking in C++" is strangely mute about "automagic"
>destruction.

Deleting twice the same object is definetely wrong. And will cause trouble=
=20
most of the times. That's why setting it to 0 is a good recommendation if t=
he=20
pointer is still going to be accessed.

>There was a thread in this list about a month ago that asked the same
>question, but once again, there were conflicting answers.

So here's the answer: for every new, there must be exactly one delete. It's=
=20
like malloc: there must be one free.

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