In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

C++ offers many facilities–most notably classes with constructors and destructors–that dramatically diminish the incidence of memory leaks. C++ also lets you define allocation and deallocation ...

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Action modifiers tell the kernel how to allocate memory. They specify, for example, whether the kernel can sleep (that is, whether the call to kmalloc () can block) in order to satisfy the allocation.

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