Can you use a shared_ptr for RAII of C-style arrays?

Question

I\'m working on a section of code that has many possible failure points which cause it to exit the function early. The libraries I\'m interacting with require that C-style

Answer 1

This

shared_ptr raiiArray(new char[arrayLength]);

is not a good practice, but causes undefined behaviour, as you allocate with operator new[], but shared_ptr uses operator delete to free the memory. The right thing to use is boost::shared_array or add a custom deleter.