Let’s Create a Memory Leak

Doing due diligence of VC-baked software startups, I get to see a lot of code like this:

SalesOrder * Order = new[100]; …

delete Order;

The developer has just created a memory leak.  The destructor ~SalesOrder() will only delete the first order, orphaning the remaining 99 on the heap.  The correct call to release all the memory of the 100 orders is as follows:

delete [] Order;

You can confirm this by simply inserting a cout statement in the destructor.

Chad Salinas