Question

I have a project specification(so I can’t change it) where I’ve created a function

const mat4& GetView() const;

The mat4 object is created on this function:

mat4* a = new mat4();
mat4 &ret = *a;
return ret;

And later on I’ll want to delete it. But how can I do it once I’ve left the GetView method?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Take the address:

const mat4 & x = GetView();
delete &x;

(I’m assuming that operator& is not overloaded. If it is, you need to do something a bit more complex.)