Suppose That a Function Dynamically Allocates a Block of Memory

question 11

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a function dynamically allocates a block of memory with a local pointer variable p pointing to the allocated block. Suppose further that there are no other pointers referencing that block of memory, and the function returns without doing a delete on p. Then

• A) the pointer p becomes a dangling pointer.
• B) the compiler will automatically deallocate the memory pointed to by p.
• C) the program will suffer from memory leaks.
• D) the returning function will throw the bad_alloc exception.
• E) None of the above

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