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As I understand the standard, the following code will not perform as
the developer expects and free memory of p1 & p2. MSVC8 confirms this
and leaks 34bytes at p2. I do not get any compilation warnings, even
at Level 4 (max warnings).

int main(int, char**)
{
     char *p1 = new char[23];
     char *p2 = new char[34];

     delete[] p1,p2;
     return 0;
}

I assume then, that the comma operator here is seen as the compiler as
separating two statements; "delete[] p1" and "p2", and that "p2" as
statement does nothing but is not an error. Is my understanding of
this correct?

Thanks
-- Craig

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