Heap corruption detected ERROR
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Hi ,
I am trying to implement something like the standard c++ string class using cstring functions but I am getting the heap corruption error and debugging didn't help figure it out.My class is declared like this:@
class String
{
public:
//TYPEDEFS AND MEMBER CONSTANTS.typedef std::size_t sizetype; static const sizetype DEFAULT_CAPACITY=30; String(const char initial[]=""); ~String();................
//private:
char *data;
sizetype usedSpace;};
@
and the relevant implementation is shown below:
@
//CONSTRUCTOR
String::String(const char initial[])
{data=new char[strlen(initial)];
strcpy(data,initial);
used=strlen(initial);}
String::~String()
{
delete [] data;
}@
But when i instantiate the class in the main function to test ,like this:
@
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
int main()
{String mString1("KARAMAGE");
String mString2("KAREKEZI");cout << mString1.data <<endl;
cout << mString2.data <<endl;return 0;}
@
The program crashes when the destructor is called (at least the call stack of my degugger is telling me so).I first thought it was a problem with our processor but I am experiencing the same issues on my intel windows8 machine.Am I doing something wrong here ,as I have always declared pointer arrays and deleted them like this.
I would also appreciate it if you helped run this code through your environment and tell me what your debugger is saying.Thanks for your time.
