In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

As I explained a few months ago, I think of the C and C++ programming languages as distinct from their accompanying standard libraries. 2 Although the various components in the Standard C++ library ...

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