Can i drop the [] while deleteing array of some built-in , C/C++ Programming

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Can I drop the [] while deleteing array of some built-in type (char, int, etc)?

A: No. you can't

Sometimes programmers think that the [] in the delete[] p only present so the compiler will call the suitable destructors for all elements in the array. Due to this reasoning, they suppose that an array of some built-in type such as char or int can be deleted without the []. For example they suppose the following is valid code:

void userCode(int n)

{

char* p = new char[n];

...

delete p; //  ERROR! Should be delete[] p !

}

However the above code is wrong and it can cause a blow at runtime. Particularly, the code that's called for delete p is operator delete (void*), however the code that's called for delete[] p is operator delete[](void*). For the latter the default behavior is to call the former, however users are allowed to replace the latter along with a different behavior (in which case normally they would also replace the corresponding new code in operator new[](size_t)). If they replaced the delete[] code thus it wasn't compatible  along with the delete code, and you called the wrong one (that means  if you said delete p instead of delete[] p), you could end up with a disaster at runtime.


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