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Memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, and it's perfectly valid to leak memory in Rust? e.g. `Box::leak(Box::new( ... ))`
by LinusU 5mo ago
Memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, and it's perfectly valid to leak memory in Rust?
e.g. `Box::leak(Box::new( ... ))`
- satvikpendem 5mo agoGenerally it's automatically dropped unless you go out of your way to use the leak function, which most software doesn't do.
- nicoburns 5mo agoMemory safety doesn't help too much here, but "RAII" (automatically dropping values when they go out of scope) does.