On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:31:26 -0400, %u <[email protected]> wrote:
Is it necessary free memory allocated for member of structure, like in
C? I
suppose not (we have gc). Example:
struct BITMAP {
(...)
ubyte[] pixels;
}
BITMAP* bitmap = new BITMAP;
bitmap.pixels = new ubyte[100*100];
(...)
// delete bitmap.pixels; //not necessary?
delete bitmap;
It is not necessary, because pixels will be collected by the GC sometime
in the future. It will *not* free pixel's data by calling delete on the
BITMAP pointer.
Just a note, you may be tempted to use a destructor do effect the above
(as is done in C++ commonly), but this is a very big mistake.
And one other note -- delete will eventually be deprecated. In order to
free memory, you must use clear and GC.free.
-Steve
