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The second example is wrong. "new Character[MAX_CHARACTERS]" creates an array of Character objects, but then you go through and manually create an array of Character objects, overwriting (and leaking) the first ones. "delete [] characters" will try probably crash since it's deleting an array of already-deleted objects.

Graeme Perrow
– Graeme Perrow

2009-08-28 20:08:03 +00:00
Commented Aug 28, 2009 at 20:08
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Never mind my comment - there was a typo in the example. It should have been "new Character *[MAX_CHARACTERS]", which is allocating an array of pointers, not an array of objects. I fixed the example and removed my downvote. :-)

Graeme Perrow
– Graeme Perrow

2009-08-28 20:20:24 +00:00
Commented Aug 28, 2009 at 20:20
Ah, thanks! I was writing in a hurry, and didn't proofread as well as I should have.

Bill
– Bill

2009-08-28 21:29:03 +00:00
Commented Aug 28, 2009 at 21:29

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