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  1. June 7th, 2016, 07:16 AM #1
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    What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    If I use smart pointers to protect my dynamically allocated objects,
    what will happen when I brutally stop an application,
    will the pointers leak?
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  2. June 7th, 2016, 07:20 AM #2
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    Well, didn't you try to " brutally stop an application"?
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    The Operating System will free memory owned by the application when it terminates, gracefully or otherwise.
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    Read up on TerminateProcess in msdn. Typically the OS frees everything, but not always.
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    Typically, everything is "freed", but not necessarily "cleanly". Files may not be flushed, temporary lock files may not be deleted, termination signals may not be sent etc...
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    what will happen when I brutally stop an application,
    Why do you want to do this?
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    Also note that forcibly terminating a program does not call the destructor of any in-scope objects. It is a really bad idea to force terminate a process.
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    Re: What will happen if I brutally force to stop an application when ptrs are smart

    It will Stop That's all
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