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Section 12.1 Dynamic Memory and Smart Pointers
Section 12.3 Using the Library: A Text-Query Program
The programs we’ve written so far have used objects that have well-defined lifetimes. Global objects are allocated at program start-up and destroyed when the program ends. Local, automatic objects are created and destroyed when the block in which they are defined is entered and exited. Local static objects are allocated before their first use and are destroyed when the program ends.
In addition to supporting automatic and static objects, C++ lets us allocate objects dynamically. Dynamically allocated objects have a lifetime that is independent of where they are created; they exist ...
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