Thread: problem with deleting pointers??

Hi

I just get a simple problem:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>

void main()
{
  

  int i = 2;
  int* ptest = &i;
  delete ptest;

}

the app crashed when I ran it, why?

Thanks

You are deleting memory you haven't allocated with new.

int main(), not void main().

> delete ptest;

If you have
int *ptest = new int;
Then you need at some point, exactly one
delete ptest;

If you have
int *ptest = new int[some_number];
Then you need at some point, exactly one
delete [] ptest;

Trying to delete anything else is a really bad idea.