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Subject: Re: general protection fault error
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"S. Kaleyta" <skaleyta AT home DOT com> wrote in news:u8kjo3p5q5kb41
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> Is it possible to delete a pointer?  I get a "general protection fault"
> error when compiled and run on my pc but not on my unix box.
> 
> Code segment:
> int *pnt;
> pnt = &num;
> delete pnt;

this is absurd ... pnt does not point to memory that was obtained from new.