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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by nine_k on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:39PM (#14756445)
Do you even explicitly free() a RAII-managed pointer? If yes, why?
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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by pcwalton on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:59PM (#14756627)
No, and that's the problem. Free can effectively be called invisibly, causing UAF.
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