The basics of memory management

Most of the time, issues arising during memory management happen when programmers forget about deallocating memory space. This results in memory leaks. A memory leak is a widespread issue in almost every program. When the program requests a new memory space for its data, the OS marks the provided space as busy. That is, no other instruction of the program or any other program can request that busy memory space. When the portion of the program is done with the memory space, ideally, it must notify the OS to remove the busy label to make the space available for others. Some languages provide automatic control over dynamically allocated memory, leaving the programmer to worry about the logic of the application rather than constantly being concerned with deallocating memory resources. However, C++ assumes that the programmer is responsible and smart...