delete[] without new[]?

[ChadJohnson]

Is there ever a case when I should use delete[] when I have not used new[] to allocate memory?

[misplaced]

no..

[Magos]

If osmeone else does the new[] for you?

[AH_Tze]

Could he mean if there is a new[] inside a conditional? At which point this might happen:

int* ptr_var = 0;

//... possibility of ptr_var = new int[SIZE]

delete [] ptr_var;

[ChadJohnson]

I mean that or anything that you can think of.

Can you explain what you mean by "new[] inside a conditional"?

[samGwilliam]

I mean that or anything that you can think of.

Can you explain what you mean by "new[] inside a conditional"?

Whether the allocation was based on a condition. But that still means the delete has a corresponding new...

[pianorain]

Well, just like delete, you can safely delete[] on a NULL pointer.

int main(void)
{
	int* a = NULL;
	delete[] a;
	return 0;
}