Question

In C memory allocation/deallocation done by malloc and free.

In C++ memory allocation/deallocation done by new and delete.

There are some solutions in C++ for automatic memory management like:

• Smart Pointers.
• RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)
• Reference counting and cyclic references
• …

But how can I do automatic memory management in C?

Is there any solutions for AUTOMATIC memory management in C?

Is there any guidelines or something like that for C?

I want when I foget free a block of memory:

• My code doesn’t compile

— or —

• Memory automatically deallocated

And then I say: Oh, C is better than C++, Java and C#. 🙂

Answer 1

You may use a Boehm garbage collector library.