Why does is 'new' creating only one object and not an array of objects?

Question

I am currently trying to make a Transposition Table for my chess engine, and am using a class with a dynamically allocated array member of a struct object.

class TranspositionTable {
private:
    TranspositionEntry* data_;
public:
    TranspositionTable() {
        data_ = new TranspositionEntry[5]; //5 is an example but i'm actually using a number over 16 million --
                                           // that's why I need it dynamically allocated
    }
    ~TranspositionTable() {
        delete[] data_;
    }
}

However, when the object is constructed, I check the Visual Studio debugger, and it only shows that the data_ member contains a single struct object, instead of an array of it. I am using the 'new' keyword and have tried changing whether it's a pointer or not etc. but it still doesn't work. Can anyone explain what is going on?

Answer 1

I just realized the problem. The array WAS actually being allocated. But since I was in the visual studio debugger, and the value was a pointer, I was actually only seeing the first value. HTHs for other people! My bad!