[Rcpp-devel] Pointer troubles

| Hi Dirk,
| 
| Won't test be cleared up when the garbage collector calls
| intObjFinalizer(PointerTotest)? That is what I thought the finalizer
| would do.
| Is there a specific chapter about the mixing of new/delete and the R
| allocations?

It may have been in Section 6.1 about 'Memory allocation' but I don't see it
right now.  I may have misremembered the recommendation about new/delete with
the one for malloc/free: most of the time you are better off using the R
facilities as you fall back onto R's error handling.

And in general, you should not need new / delete. Modern C++ uses STL
containers which hide all this, and Rcpp conveniently wraps that for you --
just like Romain just showed you the simpler XPtr use.

Dirk

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