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by: Lynn McGuire - Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:17 UTC

"Inside STL: Smart pointers" by Raymond Chen
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230814-00/

"The C++ standard library comes with a few smart pointer types."

"The simplest one is unique_ptr: This class babysits a raw pointer and
remembers to delete it at destruction (in an appropriate manner).
Dumping the contents of a unique_ptr is just looking at the raw pointer
inside."

"The complication is that there is also a deleter object in the
unique_ptr. This deleter object is usually an empty class, so it is
stored as part of a compressed pair."

We have yet to use a smart pointer in our software.

Lynn

Two percent of zero is almost nothing.

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"Inside STL: Smart pointers" by Raymond Chen	Lynn McGuire