General garbage callection question.

[vladibo]

When I have some data to keep, like ID,NAME, DATE, when shall I use Structs and when garbage callected object? Shall I destroy structs if I use them?

Thanks,
vladi

 

[Zyrenthian]

It depends on how you declare your struct. If you

myStruct* pMyStruct = new myStruct;
you must clean it up yourself by calling
delete pMyStruct;

If you

{
myStruct ms;
...
}

when it goes out of scope it cleans itself up.

If your struct allocates memory, its destructor should handle the deletion.

Matt

 

[vladibo]

But if it is inside garbage collected (__gc) class shall I clean it then?

 

[Cagliostro]

you can call delete for __gc classes, but it will do quite nothing. The destructor will be called, but the object will not be destroyed. So, you should do nothing to eliminate garbage.

Ion Filipski