Introducing Mechanisms and APIs for Memory Management: Using Windows OS Native Runtime APIs

© Roger Villela 2020

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4. Working with Smart Pointers: unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr

Roger Villela¹ 

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Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

In this chapter, you’ll learn more about memory management using the smart pointers unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr.

Pointers Review

Chapter 3 gave you an overview of the composite type pointer, introducing some concepts and presenting a practical use of a composite type pointer. In Chapter 3 you also started to work with raw pointers and with smart pointers, specifically with unique_ptr.

In this chapter, you will learn about more specific features of unique_ptr and also learn about shared_ptr and weak_ptr ...