> more or less irrelevant trivia What are some cases? The only I can think of is if a "remote" thing owned the memory. For example, if I sent a pointer elsewhe

> more or less irrelevant trivia What are some cases? The only I can think of is if a "remote" thing owned the memory. For example, if I sent a pointer elsewhere, then reused it later. Like, maybe with a device driver, or library.