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by uxp8u61q 963 days ago
Just don't write bugs!
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It's impossible to memory leak even with bugs if you don't use antique parts of the language that won't pass any static analysis anyways.
Considering that Chromium, being one of the most heavily statically analyzed code bases, is full of commits which fix memory leaks, your comment makes absolutely no sense.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Achromium%2Fchromium+memor...

Chromium is a massive project spanning decades of intense active development that intricately connects just about every domain of programming.

A few leaks fixed per month is nothing. Further there is no major language promising no leaks once you include things like retained references to garbage and reference cycles. Leaks are one thing modern C++ solves pretty well.

Anything written by Google is absolute bottom of the barrel shit.

It's not indicative of anything average in the real world.

It's a bit hard to get an overview. But I did spot several uses of owning raw pointers and switching from those to managed ones. I'd say that's exactly the point I was trying to make.
What antique part of the language am I using in this bugged code?

    class A {};
    std::unique_ptr<A> array(new A[256]);
It's very easy to produce innocuous-looking code that contains leaks. (And yes, I know that make_unique solves the problem here.)
At this point I'd rather just write assembly language.
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