Consequence of deleting 'a' at the end of fun()

#1

if we do the following:
delete [] a;
it will delete the array after returning the address ‘xyz’. and if we later try to output the value b[0], we will get garbage.
is this correct?

#2

Yes , if before deleting you store the address of a into another pointer say b, and delete a, then the values holded by b will be random (garbage).

#3

But after the return statement will we not exit the function what sense it will make to write delete [] a after it writing return a?

#4

Yes it makes no sense as lines written after return never executes.
So if you want to delete array, you should do it before return statement.

#5

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