Is it necessary to call delete[] vs delete for char arrays?

Question

I\'m utilizing a library written by a collegue and discovered that valgrind was spewing out errors related to the delete.

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Answer 1

The standard says nothing about how the memory will get deleted -- it merely says that to not match the correct new with the correct delete is undefined behavior.

Actually, new[] followed by delete usually frees all the memory that was allocated with new[], but destructors for the items in that array are not called correctly. (Most of the time -- not that the standard mandates that)

Rather than dynamically allocated arrays, you should consider use of vector.