signal 11 generating problem, was: Further observations regarding alloca on i586-pc-linux-gnu

[Alexandre Oliva]

Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@darmstadt.gmd.de> writes:

> Martin von Loewis wrote:

>> I'd say auto_ptrs are there for you, no? Somebody correct me, but it
>> seems that
>> 
>> void f(char * = std::auto_ptr<char*>(new char[20]));

>> is valid C++, and gives you memory that will live slightly longer than
>> the call to f, and will then be automatically deallocated.

Yup, it's syntactically valid C++, but it is wrong because auto_ptr
will delete the pointer to the array as if it were a pointer to a
single object.  You should write auto_ptr_array instead.

> Returning an auto_ptr is not really an option. According to Stroustrup, 
> "The C++ Programming Language" 3rd Edition page 368, auto_ptr does not 
> contain a cast operator to its element type.

But it provides a get() method, that you could use to obtain the
pointer to the contained object.

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Alexandre Oliva
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