Auto pointer for unsigned char array?
- by Gianluca
I'd need a class like std::auto_ptr for an array of unsigned char*, allocated with new[]. But auto_ptr only calls delete and not delete[], so i can't use it.
I also need to have a function which creates and returns the array. I came out with my own implementation within a class ArrayDeleter, which i use like in this example:
#include <Utils/ArrayDeleter.hxx>
typedef Utils::ArrayDeleter<unsigned char> Bytes;
void f()
{
// Create array with new
unsigned char* xBytes = new unsigned char[10];
// pass array to constructor of ArrayDeleter and
// wrap it into auto_ptr
return std::auto_ptr<Bytes>(new Bytes(xBytes));
}
...
// usage of return value
{
auto_ptr<Bytes> xBytes(f());
}// unsigned char* is destroyed with delete[] in destructor of ArrayDeleter
Is there a more elegant way to solve this? (Even using another "popular" library)
