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		saagarjha on March 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Usable C++ Dialect That Is Safe Against Memory C... Like, the operator ->? Why, and what do you use instead?

kolpa on March 15, 2018 [–]

You could use ".get()." instead of "->", but I don't see how that helps.

fjsolwmv on March 15, 2018 | | [–]

Correction: "(foo)." or smart pointer (foo.get())." instead of "foo->".

But I still don't see how that would help.

ZephyrP on March 15, 2018 | | [–]

Well I guess you're safe against UAF! (har har)

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