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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Deallocating an object twice
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:15:35 +0100
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Don't copy pointers! It is the copy of the pointer that is bad, not
> the behavior of Unchecked_Deallocation.

I don't think pointers are always bad, so long as everyone knows whose
responsibility it is to do the allocation and deallocation.