From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: delete NULL?
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:24:40 -0800
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Dave Cigna wrote:

> And wouldn't it be nice if delete not only deallocated the memory used,
> but also set the pointer to NULL. This would eliminate the dangers of
> deleting something more than once.

Not when you have multiple, separate references to the same block of
memory.  Nulling one of them doesn't null the others.

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