Question

Let’s say i have 2 classes:

class Class1
{
public:
  std::vector<CustomClass3*> mVec;
public:
  Class1();
  ~Class1()
  {
    //iterate over all the members of the vector and delete the objects
  }
};

class InitializerClass2
{
private:
  Class1 * mPtrToClass1;
public:
  InitializerClass2();
  void Initialize()
  {
    mPtrToClass1->mVec.push_back(new CustomClass3(bla bla parameters));
  }
};

Will this work? Or the memory allocated in the InitializerClass2::Initialize() method might get corrupted after the method terminates?

Thanks!

Answer 1

In short this will work fine.

The memory being allocated in Initialize is on the heap. This means that changes in the stack do not affect the contents of this memory.