Synopsis

A memory location allocated with new is deleted with delete[]

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

High/High

Full description

A memory location is allocated with the new operator but deleted with the delete [] operator. Use the delete operator instead.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

int main(void)
{
  int *p = new int;
  delete[] p; //should be delete, not delete[]

  return 0;
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

int main(void)
{
  int *p = new int;
  delete p;

  return 0;
}