Programme crashes while deallocating a character array

Question

When I run the .exe being created with the below code in debug mode , it shows some assertion failure and the programme crashes But when i run the same exe created from the rele

Answer 1

You're trying to deallocate the character-string literal "Hello". This line:

buf = "Hello";

redirects the pointer buf to point at the literal "Hello". You probably meant to do this:

char *buf = new char[6]; //need one extra space for terminating NUL character
strcpy(buf, "Hello");