Introduction to Game Programming with C++ (Wordware Game Developers Library)

11.3 delete Keyword

To delete an object created with the new keyword from memory, the delete keyword can be used. For each object created with new there should be a corresponding deletion using delete. Otherwise, objects not deleted are sometimes left lingering in memory, hogging more and more resources. This is called a memory leak, which can be the cause of many errors. Consider the following code for the creation and deletion of an object in memory.

#include <iostream> int main() { int *Number = new int; *Number = 5; std::cout<<*Number; delete Number; return 0; }