Thread: Can't delete memory

Originally Posted by jcafaro10

Nothing can be accessing the stack after I delete it because I call exit(0) so perhaps it's something else.

But it IS accessing the stack. The stack contains the return address from when you called delete. That return address is accessed (on the stack you just deleted) when the call to delete returns.

It's certainly wrong, but I'm not sure it's the cause of your crash.

At any rate, the "cleanup thread" should probably not be one of your threads, but actually the main program thread, running on the "normal" stack.

Originally Posted by brewbuck

But it IS accessing the stack. The stack contains the return address from when you called delete. That return address is accessed (on the stack you just deleted) when the call to delete returns.

It's certainly wrong, but I'm not sure it's the cause of your crash.

At any rate, the "cleanup thread" should probably not be one of your threads, but actually the main program thread, running on the "normal" stack.

Or at the very least, you should not be trying to delete the stack for the cleanup thread until you get back to your main thread.

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