34. Memory and Resources

Anyone can have an idea; it’s what you do with the idea that’s the important thing.

– Terry Pratchett

• Introduction

• “Almost Containers”

array; bitset; vector<bool>; Tuples

• Resource Management Pointers

unique_ptr; shared_ptr; weak_ptr

• Allocators

The Default Allocator; Allocator Traits; Pointer Traits; Scoped Allocators

• The Garbage Collection Interface

• Uninitialized Memory

Temporary Buffers; raw_storage_iterator

• Advice

34.1. Introduction

The STL (Chapter 31, Chapter 32, Chapter 33) is the most highly structured and general part of the standard-library facilities for the management and manipulation of data. This chapter presents facilities that are more specialized or deal with raw memory (as opposed to typed ...

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