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Smart Pointer

What are smart pointers? The answer is fairly simple; a smart pointer is a pointer which is smart. What does that mean? Actually, smart pointers are objects which behave like pointers but do more than a pointer. These objects are flexible as pointers and have the advantage of being an object (like constructor and destructors called automatically). A smart pointer is designed to handle the problems caused by using normal pointers (hence called smart).