[SDL] ot - memory leaks

[Stefan Hendriks]

Java has a garbage collector, which takes a lot of stuff of your
hands (though not everything, there are some quirks).

In C/C++, everything you allocate, must be de-allocated. ;-)

Ofcourse, there are exceptions..

2007/8/3, Jacek Poplawski <jacekpoplawski at gmail.com>:
> On 8/3/07, neil at cloudsprinter.com <neil at cloudsprinter.com> wrote:
>
> > but if it's inside a function i can only access it from that function, my
> > (probably worng) understanding was that anything created in a function was
> > killed at the end of that fucntion, or is that java?
>
> If you allocate memory inside function you should free it inside or outside
> that function.
> That's why using pointers in dangerous.
> I think you should play with C/C++ first. You can find lots of good books
> about it.
>
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