>From: "Alan Bellingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
Right. I came to think of that after I sent it. So not even calling delete on it is safe. Regards, Terje _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
