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▲ Gupie a day ago

Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.

▲dh2022 a day ago | parent [-]

std::vector<int> allocated and freed on the stack will allocate an array for its int’s on the heap…

▲Gupie 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.

▲usefulcat 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've heard that MSVC does (did?) that, but if so that's an MSVC problem. gcc and clang don't do that.

https://godbolt.org/z/nasoWeq5M

▲menaerus 17 hours ago | parent [-]

WDYM? Vector is an abstraction over dynamically sized arrays so sure it does use heap to store its elements.

▲aw1621107 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I think usefulcat interpreted "std::vector<int> allocated and freed on the stack" as creating a default std::vector<int> and then destroying it without pushing elements to it. That's what their godbolt link shows, at least, though to be fair MSVC seems to match the described GCC/Clang behavior these days.