issue regarding deleting an object in qt with delete and free

[SherifOmran]

This is the whole error message when i remove the null

linkelist(34449,0x7fffa95e1380) malloc: *** error for object 0x3: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

[SherifOmran]

I found the mistake
it was in

ClassList::~ClassList()
{
    //destructor
    //delete temp; /
    delete head;
}

it was delete temp

[JonB]

@SherifOmran

it was delete temp

I was just about to tell you that! Your temp wasn't even initialized! As you can see, as predicted the error was indeed inside the destructor for stack, which is only called if you delete stack.

[sierdzio]

@SherifOmran said in issue regarding deleting an object in qt with delete and free:

ClassList::ClassList()
{

//main
head = new Node;
head=NULL;

Huh? Looks like an instant memory leak.

(btw. you should use nullptr)

Frankly, I don't have time to analyse your whole code, sorry. But perhaps try running it through valgrind and address sanitizer - it should pick all the leaks for you.

[jsulm]

@SherifOmran As far as I can see you did not initialise temp and try to delete it! No wonder it does not work.

ClassList::ClassList()
{
    head = new Node;
    head=NULL; // Why do you assign NULL after creating instance?!
}

ClassList::~ClassList()
{
    delete temp; //Check whether temp points to anything before deleting
    delete head;
}

Change

private:
    Node* head = nullptr; //number 1
    Node* current = nullptr; //current node
    Node* temp = nullptr;
    Node* temp2 = nullptr;

[SherifOmran]

what caused confusion is that i delete L at line 51 and it was accepted

[SherifOmran]

@jsulm
because i want to check that the head it Null at the initialization

[jsulm]

@SherifOmran

delete L; // L became a null pointer

The comment is wrong: the value of the pointer does not change when you call delete on it.

delete L;
L = nullptr; // Now it is null pointer

[SherifOmran]

yes thank you i corrected this comment

[jsulm]

@SherifOmran said in issue regarding deleting an object in qt with delete and free:

@jsulm
because i want to check that the head it Null at the initialization

As @sierdzio already told you: you created a memory leak this way.
Just remove

head = new Node;

Else you create an instance and loose the pointer to it, so you never delete this instance -> memory leak.

[SherifOmran]

yes i see.
how i delete temp that was initialized in ClassList::InsertNode ?

[jsulm]

@SherifOmran said in issue regarding deleting an object in qt with delete and free:

how i delete temp that was initialized in ClassList::InsertNode ?

delete temp;

[JonB]

@SherifOmran

how i delete temp that was initialized in ClassList::InsertNode ?

As @jsulm says it's still delete temp, but make sure you initialize temp = nullptr in either the declaration or the constructor, ClassList::InsertNode might never get called....

[SherifOmran]

thank you guys for suggested corrections