Fergus Henderson wrote:
>
> "Rey Crisostomo" <rey@clear.net.nz> writes:
>
> >In the latest draft, is it an error to delete a pointer to const?
>
> No.  That was made legal in November 94.
>
> >For example,
> >
> >const A *a = new A;
> >...
> >delete a;
> >
> >Should the above example compile?
>
> Yes, it should.
>

Does this mean that I should be able to do this:

{
   auto_ptr<const A> aptr(new A);
   ...
}

Here, A is a previously define class and auto_ptr is the
standard C++ auto_ptr class defined in the header <memory>.
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Rey Crisostomo <reynaldoc@vnet.ibm.com> writes:

>Does this mean that I should be able to do this:
>
>{
>   auto_ptr<const A> aptr(new A);
>   ...
>}
>
>Here, A is a previously define class and auto_ptr is the
>standard C++ auto_ptr class defined in the header <memory>.

Yes, that should be fine.

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In the latest draft, is it an error to delete a pointer to const? For
example,

const A *a = new A;
...
delete a;

Should the above example compile?

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"Rey Crisostomo" <rey@clear.net.nz> writes:

>In the latest draft, is it an error to delete a pointer to const?

No.  That was made legal in November 94.

>For example,
>
>const A *a = new A;
>...
>delete a;
>
>Should the above example compile?

Yes, it should.

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