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Deallocation of Dynamic Memory

Understand how to properly free dynamically allocated memory in C++ using the delete operator. Explore best practices like setting pointers to nullptr after deallocation, helping you manage dynamic memory safely and efficiently in your programs.

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Introduction

The compiler automatically deallocates the static space when it is not used anymore. Since dynamically allocated memory is managed by a programmer, when dynamically allocated space is not required anymore, we must free it.

delete operator


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