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I got to avoid memory management for quite some time (feddit.org)

submitted 6 days ago by cows_are_underrated@feddit.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

being inserted automatically.

Aka the entire point of RAII

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The point of RAII is that a resource is allocated and freed in the same scope.

You can free it with an explicit call to a destructor, an implicit call, or with memory allocated on the stack, just wait for the stack frame to be exited.