• "Laurentiu Pancescu" <user domain.invalid> Mar 18 2002
• "Laurentiu Pancescu" <user domain.invalid> Mar 18 2002
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Mar 18 2002

I think that DMC's delete tries to free the memory which is not dynamically
allocated, in case of using placement new.  The following program crashes
(-mn) or terminates with a "heap corruption" message (-mx).  This is true
also for placement new[], the sample code is almost the same, so I won't
provide it here.  The destructors should be executed, but the memory
shouldn't be freed, because it wasn't allocated by new (the object was
contructed directly at the user supplied address).

// placement new demo (sc -mn -A)
#include <new.h>
class A {}

int main()
{
  static char buffer[1024];
  A *pa = new (static_cast<A *>(buffer)) A;
  delete pa; // it crashes here
  return 0;
}

An extra note: ISO-C++ standard says that main must be declared as returning
int, and that if the program doesn't return a value from main, a "0" must be
silently returned by the compiler (in the special case of main only!).  DMC
gives a warning in normal mode, and an error in ANSI mode, if the "return
0;" line is missing.

Regards,
  Laurentiu

Errr... my mistake, sorry!  Normally, one should call pa->~A(); what I
wrongly thought is that this call is a mere method call, and, if A is
derived from B, B's destructor doesn't get called.  I was confused about gcc
and BCC supporting calls to delete with pointers to objects obtained via
placement new.  I guess this is just an extension of the standard (I don't
have a copy of it).

Sorry about this!

Laurentiu

"Laurentiu Pancescu" <user domain.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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 // placement new demo (sc -mn -A)
 #include <new.h>
 class A {}

 int main()
 {
   static char buffer[1024];
   A *pa = new (static_cast<A *>(buffer)) A;
   delete pa; // it crashes here


   return 0;
 }

"Laurentiu Pancescu" <user domain.invalid> wrote in message
news:a75lrs$2deg$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 An extra note: ISO-C++ standard says that main must be declared as


 int, and that if the program doesn't return a value from main, a "0" must


 silently returned by the compiler (in the special case of main only!).


 gives a warning in normal mode, and an error in ANSI mode, if the "return
 0;" line is missing.


I'll fix that one, too. -Walter