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From: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: delete NULL? |
Date: | Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:24:40 -0800 |
Organization: | Alcyone Systems |
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Dave Cigna wrote: > And wouldn't it be nice if delete not only deallocated the memory used, > but also set the pointer to NULL. This would eliminate the dangers of > deleting something more than once. Not when you have multiple, separate references to the same block of memory. Nulling one of them doesn't null the others. -- Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / email: max AT alcyone DOT com Alcyone Systems / web: http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, California, United States / icbm: 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W \ "I am become death, / destroyer of worlds." / J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting legend)
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