From 116606025014728750 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccfd547ab8587b55 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: James Kuyper Subject: Re: delete[] and NULL Date: 1998/09/17 Message-ID: <35FDB14D.2781@wizard.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 391890394 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gscsgi02.gsfc.nasa.gov Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: clamage@taumet Boris Schaefer wrote: > Stroustrup 3rd ed says, that delete p has no effect, if p is 0. It > doesn't say anything about delete[]'ing 0, so my question is, what > does the standard say on delete[] 0? In section 5.3.5 it says, about both kinds of delete: "if the value of the operand of delete is the null pointer the operation has no effect." [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]