Terje Slettebų <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>in this thread, void * is type erasure. More or less the only safe thing you >>>can do with it, is to delete it. You can also cast it back to its original
[snip David Abrahams demurral] >Of course, it depends on whether the type supports polymorphic deletion, and >whether or not it's an array (so you would need delete[]), but are there >other issues besides this? I assumed that if types were used in this way, >then at least the above was known. Well, in addition, you've forgotten that because void* has no type associated with it, any real object behind the pointer will not have its dtor called. Not good news, usually. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
