What happens when you deallocate a pointer twice or more in C++?

Question

int main() {
    Employee *e = new Employee();

    delete e;
    delete e;
    ...
    delete e;
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

You are likely venturing into 'undefined behavior' territory.

On many systems this will cause a crash; for example, on my Linux machine:

*** glibc detected *** ./cctest: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000000d59900 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7f399f4cbdd6]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6c)[0x7f399f4d074c]
./cctest[0x400a7a]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f399f474abd]
./cctest[0x400959]