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		winter_blue on June 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One year of C You’d rather debug malloc/free than try to find and eliminate shared_ptr cycles? You really think that’s easier? Besides, you shouldn’t be using shared_ptr much at all, and should try to use unique_ptr everywhere.

vvanders on June 3, 2018 [–]

Yup. Most of the debug CRTs contain fantastic malloc/free debugging and pointer overwrite tools.

FWIW I don't consider unique_ptr a smart pointer, that's just RAII in action.

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