C++ Memory Management

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Contemporary Issues

We are reaching the end of our journey, dear reader. Over the course of this book, we have examined fundamental aspects of the C++ object model and discussed dangerous aspects of low-level programming. We have looked at the fundamentals of resource management in C++ through the RAII idiom, looked at how smart pointers are used, and explored how to write such a type. We also took control of the memory allocation functions at our disposal (and we did that in many ways!), and we wrote containers that manage memory themselves as well as through other objects or types, including allocators.

That was quite an experience!

What do we still have to cover? Well, so much… but there’s a limit to what we can put in a single book. So, ...