So after a long painful journey tonight of trying to serialize a function pointer, I began to wonder. After seeing the code with a bunch of reinterpret_cast() calls, I got to wondering -- how does ...

C++ pointers earned a bad reputation for causing memory leaks, but new smart pointers release memory as it stops being referenced.

No, at least for references (avoiding pointers where possible is a good idea, and will be even more feasible once C++11's new move semantics become widespread).

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