On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 23:15 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Van Snyder (12024-12-12): > > Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do > > not > > leak, unless you are intentionally careless. > > There is nothing more careless in adding an element to a hash table > and > forgetting to remove it than in malloc()ing a memory area and > forgetting > to free()it.
In languages that inherently do not leak (unless you are intentionally careless), you don't need to free() because that's done automatically. But C and C++ aren't among the set of such languages.
