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And how would smart pointers help you if you need to return pointer to a member from a function? Does C++ protects you from moved from unique_ptr? Or from itera

And how would smart pointers help you if you need to return pointer to a member from a function? Does C++ protects you from moved from unique_ptr? Or from iterator invalidation? Or maybe you can safely use non-atomic shared pointer if you don't need to send it across threads?

duneroadrunner 9y ago
While "just enforcing `make_shared`" wouldn't solve all the memory safety issues, it actually can be somewhat practical to "just avoid using any (or most) C++ elements that can access invalid (or uninitialized) memory", instead using the safe, compatible substitutes in the SaferCPlusPlus[1] library. [1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus