delete void pointer

It will free the memory, yes. However, in the case that it does point to something with a destructor, the destructor will not be called. If you can avoid doing it, you probably should.

It doesn''t define the behaviour. IOW, it''s undefined. To extend this, calling delete on a pointer that is not of the new''d type, unless it is a base of the new''d type, results in undefined behaviour.

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Hi, all!
I wonder what does it means "void" pointer? If u set pointer to NULL, manually it is SAFE to delete it. ( According to J. Liberty )

char *p = new char[100];
delete []p;
p = NULL;
delete p;

On Linux g++, with warning on, this goes without problems. In fact setting pointers to NULL is really good idea This all is IMHO

Lekha

Just a comment on the last line of the posted code:

char *p = new char[100];
delete []p;
p = NULL;
delete p; <- This line is unnecessary, since you already deleted p AND you have nullified the address of the allocated memory.

Anytime you do this-

pFoo = NULL;
delete pFoo;

-the only thing you have accomplished is created a memory leak.

He''s talking about void* not NULL

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