--- rxvt-unicode/src/rxvtfont.C	2012/01/17 20:44:16	1.184
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/rxvtfont.C	2012/01/26 13:08:51	1.188
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #include "rxvtutil.h"
 #include "rxvtfont.h"
 
-#include <cstdlib>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 
 #include <inttypes.h>
 
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@
     (*i)->unref ();
 
   for (pagemap **p = fmap.begin (); p != fmap.end (); p++)
-    delete *p;
+    delete [] *p;
 
   free (fontdesc); fontdesc = 0;
 
@@ -1787,7 +1787,14 @@
 
       if (!fmap[hi])
         {
-          fmap[hi] = (pagemap *)new pagemap;
+          // we use [1] here because C++ has no separate new and new [] forms,
+          // and pagemap is char[256], so new incorrectly assumes we want to
+          // allocate an array of chars instead of a single pagemap.
+          // we can either cast the resulting pointer to (pagemap *) or
+          // allocate an array of pagemaps, returning a pointer to the first member
+          // this is no extra overhead, as new even allocates an array for
+          // "new pagemap"
+          fmap[hi] = new pagemap[1];
           memset (fmap[hi], 0xff, sizeof (pagemap));
         }