Description
All programming languages use manual techniques to determine when to allocate a new object from the free store. C uses the malloc function; C++ and Java use the new operator; determination of when an object ought to be created is trivial and unproblematic. The fundamental issue is determination of when an object is no longer needed (i.e. is garbage), and arranging for its underlying storage to be returned to the free store so that it may be re-used to satisfy future memory requests. In manual memory allocation, this is also specified manually by the programmer; via functions such as free in C, or the delete operator in C++.
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