I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

An exception to the above rule is when an object is explicitly creating the dynamic-memory object for some code that calls it. One can usually, but not always, detect this by looking for a ...

This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, the handling of such dynamic memory can be problematic and inefficient. For desktop applications, where ...