Virtual destructor failed call on gcc 2.95.2

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 18, 1999, "Barry M. Caceres" <barryc@itravelpartners.com> wrote:

> The problem comes with the "array delete" operator.  Virtual destructors are
> NOT properly being called.

delete[] is not supposed to call virtual destructors, only the
non-array version of delete is.  `delete[] ptr' invokes undefined
behavior if the static type of *ptr is different from the dynamic type
of the elements of the array it points to.

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