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Re: Problems with delete after a forward reference.

Subject: Re: Problems with delete after a forward reference.
From: Thomas Maeder <maeder at glue dot ch>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:54:02 +0200
CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <1D7F74C1D7FED31193A600A0CC26B9F60CE876@hendrix.kazan.com>

Tim Gibney wrote:
> 
>     I have found a difference between Visual C++ and gcc 2.95.2.  The short
> version is that if you do a forward reference of a class you can not issue
> a delete on an object of that class in gcc but you can in Visual C++.

You are not supposed to apply delete on a pointer to an incomplete class
type because you don't know if the destructor of that class is virtual.

References:
- Problems with delete after a forward reference.
  - From: Tim Gibney

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