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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: free instead of destructor
From:       Malte Starostik <starosti () zedat ! fu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2000-02-07 18:38:46
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Marcos Dione wrote:

>         inteligent? delete ain't "inteligent". try to delete a
> non-allocated object and you'll finish with a SIGSEGV.

If you define non-allocated as a NULL pointer, what I interpreted your sentence
"destroys the object if and only if the object is allocated (is not a null
pointer)"
It won't segfault. A delete myobj with myobj == NULL will do just nothing. If
it's an invalid non-NULL pointer, your lost with Free either.
-Malte


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