I have following line of code.
Code Sample 1
char * arr = new char[10];
arr++;
delete arr;
Code Sample 2
char * arr = new char[10];
delete arr;
I have two sample codes. Code sample one is crashing at delete while code sample 2 works okay. There is an only difference of arr++. What exactly happens in these two code samples. Can anybody explain?
It is not possible to delete a single element because delete must be used to delete the same memory that was allocated.
It is crashing because the pointer that new returns must be the same one that is used for the call to delete.
Incrementing the pointer and using that means that the program no longer sees the other bookkeeping information (possibly stored just before the pointer that new returned)
Also, you should use delete[] to delete an array. For this reason, the following is undefined behavior:
char * arr = new char[10];
delete arr;
It should be:
char * arr = new char[10];
delete[] arr;
C++ does not support deleting elements in an array, as a C array is a reserved contiguous memory block. You may be looking for C++ vectors.
With them, you can do something like: (Modified example code from the link)
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
int main()
{
// Create a vector containing integers
std::vector<int> v = {7, 5, 16, 8, 6, 3, 5, 6};
// Add two more integers to vector
v.push_back(25);
v.push_back(13);
// Iterate and print values of vector
for(int n : v) {
std::cout << n << '\n';
}
v.erase(3);
v.erase(5, 6);
for(int n : v) {
std::cout << n << '\n';
}
}
A reference specificially about Visual C++ can be found at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9xd04bzs.aspx#vector__erase.
proper way to delete the array of allocations,
char * arr = new char[10]; delete[] arr;
// when you do this one element won't be deleted and will cause leak
char * arr = new char[10];
arr++
delete[] arr;
deletemust be the result of anewexpression, otherwise the behaviour is undefined.arris initialised with anewexpression. After incrementing, its value is no longer the result of anewexpression. Hence the behaviour of your code is undefined.std::vectorhas support for adding and removing individual elements.delete[] arr;.