What’s wrong with this:
wchar_t * t = new wchar_t;
t = "Tony";
I thought I could use a wchar_t pointer as a string…
What’s wrong with this: wchar_t * t = new wchar_t; t = Tony; I
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What’s wrong with this:
wchar_t * t = new wchar_t;
t = "Tony";
I thought I could use a wchar_t pointer as a string…
Your code has two issues.
First,
"Tony"is a pointer to a string ofchar‘s.L"Tony"is the appropriate wide string.Second, you allocate a single
wchar_tvia new, then immediately lose track of it by reassigning the pointer to Tony. This results in a memory leak.