Will this C++ code cause a memory leak (casting array new)

Question

I have been working on some legacy C++ code that uses variable length structures (TAPI), where the structure size will depend on variable length strings. The structures are allo

Answer 1

It's always best to keep acquisition/release of any resource as balanced as possible. Although leaking or not is hard to say in this case. It depends on the compiler's implementation of the vector (de)allocation.

BYTE * pBytes = new BYTE [sizeof(STRUCT) + nPaddingSize];

STRUCT* pStruct = reinterpret_cast< STRUCT* > ( pBytes ) ;

 // do stuff with pStruct

delete [] pBytes ;