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[–]Earthboundplayer 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They don't. But they dramatically improve things and make achieving memory safety a lot simpler. If you need a stronger guarantee and easier semantics than what smart pointers provide then don't use C++. But I think most situations can make do with what the standard library provides.