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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is there any place to talk about language features?
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 5:07:33 PM UTC-3, Ian Collins wrote:
> I find easy to create shared objects in C.
>
> Object * p1 = Create(); //ref counted 1
> Object * p2 = NULL;
>
> p2 = Share(p1);//ref counted 2
>
> Release(p1); //ref counted 1
> Release(p2); //destroyed

Correctly releasing resources manually across all code paths is indeed
easy.  That's why C programs so rarely have memory leaks.