Bartlett, Roscoe A wrote:
Come one, at least some people on this mail list must have had similar nightmare experiences in trying to track down and diagnose hard memory misuse errors in C++ that took days of effort to resolve (even with the help of tools like valgrind and purify).
Since you ask, no. I honestly don't remember when I last had a memory leak or similar error in C++ code. Not for years. C++ does have some other hazards, such as iterator invalidation rules and thread safety and abuse of reinterpret_cast, that I sometimes stumble with. But I think that the current tools for managing pointers are very effective and sufficient. Based on a few random recent conversations, I have a feeling that many of the people who used to write C++ code that suffered from memory leaks may now be coding in C# instead. Regards, Phil.