What is the best resource to learn about memory management in C?
In terms of correctness of your program, i.e. making sure that all the memory that is allocated is freed, i'd suggest starting with the boost library smart_ptr and intrusive_ptr documentation.Using this library it is possible with minimal effort to be able to code without having to be concerned with explicit memory deallocation and leaks. I'd recommend having a consistent strategy for memory allocation within a program where classes for long lived objects define a static 'Create' method that returns a {smart,intrusive}_ptr. I'd also suggest adding accounting on create/destroy functions so that you can diagnose how much memory is being consumed by objects of a given class.