[Insight-users] memory management question

[Jens Eickmeyer]

Thanks for the quick reply. Your solution did the trick.

Jens

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:48:34 -0500, Julien Jomier <jjomier at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> You can assign the image to a NULL pointer.
> This should dereference the pointer and destroy the data.
> 
> It's always risky to change the reference count of smart pointers by hand.
> 
> Julien
> 
> Jens Eickmeyer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how I can delete an object of type itkImage? I want
> > to keep only a limited number of itkImage objects in memory and
> > therefore I want to delete an object on purpose. I tried to use
> > UnRegister() which successfully decreased the reference count and
> > deleted the object. However, the methods IsNull() and IsNotNull()
> > don't work on the smart pointer correctly after that. Additionally,
> > since the itkImage is a member of an object I get a segmentation fault
> > if the object is destroyed. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Jens
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