I used CW6 and tried the permutations of mixing new, MemPtrNew, delete, and
MemPtrFree.
There were no crashes, and 100% of the memory was reclaimed in all cases.
These are just facts -- I'm not advocating mixing these calls!
I initially asked because I came across an instance where memory was
allocated with MemPtrNew, and then deleted elsewhere with 'delete', and I
was surprised that it didn't cause any trauma. Very interesting.
Thanks!
-Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Maxwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:37 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Mixing MemPtrNew and delete
Aren't new and delete actually mapped to MemPtrNew and MemPtrFree? Anyway,
this is not guaranteed so the answer is really, even if it works, don't do
it. Why worry about it breaking in the future?
Scott Maxwell
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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: Mixing MemPtrNew and delete
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> Well, it just won't work. You're allocating with one memory manager and
> deallocating with another memory manager. The two are not necessarily
> interchangable.
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> -- Keith
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> Jeff Ishaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/10/2000 12:57:56 PM
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> Please respond to "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent by: Jeff Ishaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: (Keith Rollin/HQ/3Com)
> Subject: Mixing MemPtrNew and delete
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> So what bad things can become of this:
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> CharPtr myStringP = (CharPtr) MemPtrNew( 50 );
> delete myStringP;
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> And of course this:
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> CharPtr myStringP = new char(50);
> MemPtrFree (myStringP);
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> Just a passing thought,
> -Jeff
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