Understanding Memory Management, Part 2: C++ and RAII

This is the second post in my planned multipart [1] series on memory management. In part I we covered the basics of memory allocation and how it works in C, where the programmer is responsible for manually allocating and freeing memory. In this post, we'll start looking at memory management in C++, which provides a number of much fancier affordances. Background: C++ # As the name suggests, C++ is a derivative of C. The original version of C++ was basically an object oriented version of C ("C with classes")