On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:52:55 +0100, stbenge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Say I wrote
>
> int** foo = NULL;
> int nx = 22, ny = 17;
>
> void matrixfunc(){
>   foo = new int*[nx];
>
>   for (int x = 0; x < nx; x++)
>    foo[x] = new int[ny];
> }

Much better to use std::vector instead. Avoid raw pointers like the  

plague; it will save you many headaches.



> and called matrixfunc();, but before I could delete it
>
> for (int x = 0; x < nx; x++)
>   delete[] foo[x];
>
>   delete[] foo;
>   foo = NULL;
>
> the code crashed. Do I have a memory leak?

If by "crash" you mean unexpected program termination, then not really  

(not because of the crash anyway). Any modern desktop OS will reclaim th
e  

resources held by a program when said program terminates.



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FE

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