QThread new and delete

[babu198649]

Hi
Is it legal to delete a memory which is allocated( using new ) in another thread.

[jpn]

Sometimes yes, sometimes not. Your question is way too generic to be able to give a specific answer.

[babu198649]

Sometimes yes, sometimes not. Your question is way too generic to be able to give a specific answer.

I have a class like this

class PlotData
{
private :
double *data;

public:
PlotData()
{
data = new double[1000];
}
~PlotData()
{
delete []data;
}
};

and a class which inherits QThread


class Thread:QThread
{

Q_OBJECT

signals:
void signal_process(PlotData*);

public:
void run()
{
while(true)
{
PlotData *pd = new PlotData();
emit signal_process(pd);
}
}
};

now in the main gui thread i have a slot like void Delete_PlotData(PlotData*) .

connect(&thread,SIGNAL(signal_process(PlotData*)),this,Dele te_PlotData(PlotData*)));

Now is it legal to call the PlotData destructor as below.

void Delete_PlotData(PlotData* pd)
{
pd->~PlotData() //Is this legal
}

[jpn]

Looks valid to me since it's just a block of data, not a QObject for example. Alternatively you could make the data structure implicitly shared with help of QSharedData and QSharedDataPointer, pass it by reference and stop worrying about memory management... ;)