Memory free problem

edreddy · 11-08-2002, 09:27 PM

Hello all,

Will you please let me know what are reasons for which the allocated memory will not get released even though we are doing free using the delete.

i.e I am allocating the memory using "new" and de-allocating using "delete" But still the memory is not getting de-allocated.

Thanks In advance,
-edreddy.

jamestwok · 11-09-2002, 10:59 PM

It depends how you're allocating the memory, but one reason could be that you're allocating an array like

double *x = new double[10];

and then freeing it using

delete x;

when technically you should write

delete [] x;

James