Garbage collecting..

[michdd]

I have a question about how to clean up certain thing, or if it's even necessary at all. Say I have a vector of objects. These objects have members that are pointers. When I remove one of these objects from the vector will everything be cleaned up automatically? Or do I have to do something?

[Ancient Dragon]

The class destructor is responsible for deallocating memory for those pointers, assuming the memory was allocated using new or malloc().

[mrnutty]

When you remove those objects, as said earlier, the objects destructor should delete
the pointer. But if you are doing something like this :

std::vector<Object*> objVec;
objVec.push_back( new Object() );

then you need to delete the object explicitly :

nt main(){
	std::vector<int*> vec;
	vec.push_back( new int(0) );
	vec.push_back( new int(1) );

	while(!vec.empty()){
		int *p = vec.back();
		delete p; //explicitly delete it
		vec.pop_back();
	}
}