dynamic allocation

[joeGrammar]

Check out this piece of code, This is producing memory faults upon the end of my program


void DeleteAllElements()
{
STD_NAMESPACE for_each(vector<T*>::begin(), vector<T*>::end(),
---> delete_function() );
}


This is the delete_function()

bool operator() (T * const & x) const
{ delete(x);

return true;
}

As you can see there is no checking whether the &quot;x&quot; is allocated dynamically or not, it just goes ahead and deletes it, now 90% of the time it is, but its those few times where its trying to delete something that is not and it crashes.

MY QUESTION:

Is there a way to test if something is dynamically allocated before you delete it?

 

[DavesTips]

Not really; if you want a full discussion of the issues read Scott Meyer's Effective C++. At the best you can supposedly try something like

int i;
int* pi = new int;
if (pi>&i) delete pi;

which might work under Windows as long as you only have one thread and one heap. int i; should be at the beginning of your program since the stack grows downwards. Better to make sure you only have objects on the heap in your vector...