C++ Tip: Aware of the confusion between delete with delete[]

A good exercise to aid in always using delete [] where appropriate is to code your own autoarray_ptr following the pattern of c++ auto_ptr. The destructor calls delete [] when the instance goes out of scope. Saves writing a lot of messy delete [] code in "if chains" and switch blocks....

It is a bad idea to treat built-in types differently than programmer defined classes. If you delete a dynamically allocated array of a built-in type without the brackets the memory buffer may go away just fine. This is not guaranteed. The VS2008 runtime throws an exception. There is a...