Confused about operator

siabanie banie

14y1.9k

Hi all,

Can anyone clarify me about this: Apart from reserving the required memory, what else do the allocation operators do?

(a) Automatically deallocate the memory when it goes out of scope

(b) Automatically deallocate the memory when it is is no longer accessible

(d) Calls the destructors(s) for the specified type

It seems to me after reading some info in wiki and other sites it is either A or C but I am not 100% sure - anyone?

Thanks.

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Vulpes14y ago
Accepted answer
If you can only give one answer I'd give (c).

This is because you could describe 'delete' as a deallocation operator rather than an allocation operator as it's reclaiming the memory that was used by an object.
siabanie banie14y ago
Thanks Vulpes.!!
siabanie banie14y ago
Thx Vulpes, but if only one answer is needed what would be the best one then?
Vulpes14y ago
The allocation operators in C++ are 'new' and 'delete'.

These do (c) and (d) respectively.

They don't do (a) and (b).