Classes Self-Managing

The basics are thus... I have a big array of pointers to TILESTACK classes. If a given element is NULL, then there is no TILESTACK, and thus no objects, in that element. A TILESTACK manages a linked list of IObj classes that are in a specific tile. It has this bit of code...


// Up in the TILESTACK class declaration...
private:
  long mytile;

// Assume that it is set to the array index in which
// a pointer to this instance of this class can be found, in
// the big array of pointers.

// In the code...
void TILESTACK::removeitem(IObj* iiQ) {  
  .  // iiQ stands for "Item In Question"
  .  // Finds and deletes the passed object.
  delete gTilelist[mytile]; // Deletes the pointer to this instance of the class.
}

// And the TILESTACK''s destructor...
TILESTACK::~TILESTACK() {
  gTilelist[mytile] = NULL;
}

I am seriously wondering if this whole crazy getup will work... can a class delete itself?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class C {
public:
C() { cout << "C created" << endl; }
void Free() { delete this; }

private:
~C() { cout << "C destroyed" << endl; }
};

int main() {
C* c = new C;
c->Free();

return 0;
}

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