Question

I have a pointer that points to an array and another pointer referencing the same array. How do i delete any one of those pointers without killing the array such that the second undeleted pointer still works?

for example:

int* pointer1 = new int [1000];
int* pointer2;
pointer2 = pointer1;

Now i want to get rid of pointer1, how would i do it such that i can continue to access the array normaly through pointer2?

Answer 1

Those pointers are on the stack; you don’t have to delete them. Just ignore pointer1 and it will go away at the end of the block.