Is it safe to delete[] of NULL?

[Arrandale]

int *p = NULL;
delete[] p;

[Stewbond]

Nope, I've hard crashes caused by this.

use:
if (p) delete[] p;

[Arrandale]

OK. Thanks.

[cire]

It is entirely safe to use delete or delete[] on a null pointer.

Stewbond wrote:

Nope, I've hard crashes caused by this.

What compiler are you using so that we may avoid it?

[Arrandale]

OK, I back to delete[] on no condition. lol

[NoXzema]

That's the whole point of setting pointers to NULL after deletion is to avoid dangling pointers. We cannot delete an invalid pointer but we can delete a valid NULL pointer. It's easy to work this into your design as well.