Re: question about "new" and "delete" ?

[Thomas Maeder]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900@yahoo.com> writes:

> To prevent the problem, I always follow
> a delete by clearing the pointer:
>
>    delete [] a;
>    a = 0;
>
> Your cout will then result in an immediate, and obvious
> crash, which can then be debugged.

IMHO, better advice would be to not express ownership of a dynamically
allocated resource through a "raw" pointer. Smart pointers are much
better suited to that task.