C++ Memory Management

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Things to Be Careful With

So, you decided to read a book about memory management in C++ and are as ready to look at the high-level approaches and techniques as you are willing to “get your hands dirty”, so to speak, in order to get fine-grained control over the memory management process. What an excellent plan!

Since you know that you are going to be writing very high-level code, but also very low-level code, there are a few things we need to make sure you are aware of such that you do not get in trouble or write code that seems to work but does not, at least not portably.

In this chapter, we will point out some aspects of C++ programming that will come into play throughout this book, but that you should be careful with. This might look like ...