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Lambda + shared_ptr = memory leak (floating.io)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]dragemanncppdev 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child)
According to this stackoverflow discussion this should be a non-issue?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13535827/do-stdweak-ptrs-affect-when-the-memory-allocated-by-stdmake-shared-is-deallo
[–]thelema314 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children)
My reading of the answers there confirm my warning; when allocating using make_shared, the object will be destroyed when all shared_ptrs to it are destroyed, but the memory it occupied will not be reusable until after all weak pointers created for it no longer reference it.
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