delete for free(3)

[Andrew Wingorodov]

can i call delete for malloc() allocated memory?

 

[yanlinlin]

can i call delete for malloc() allocated memory?

--www.andr.ru

why do this?

 

[Anuj]

can i call delete for malloc() allocated memory?

--www.andr.ru

It will produce unpredictable results, often leading to program crash.
Though, I don't know the reason, I have read this in Scott Maeyer's
Effective C++

 

[David Côme]

<snip>

NO!!!!!!!!!!
Never call delete on memory wich have been allocated by malloc .
Never call free on memory wich have been allocated by new.

new <->delete
new[] <->delete[]
malloc <->free

 

[Jack Klein]

It will produce unpredictable results, often leading to program crash.

No, it will cause undefined behavior, which is a term defined by the
C++ language standard. That standard does not define the term
"unpredictable results".

Though, I don't know the reason, I have read this in Scott Maeyer's
Effective C++

The reason is that it causes undefined behavior. You break the rules
and you no longer have a C++ program.

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