“Right” way to deallocate an std::vector object

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The simplest and most reliable way to deallocate a vector is to declare it on the stack and simply do nothing.

void Foo() {
  std::vector<int> v;
  ...
}

C++ guarantees that the destructor of v will be called when the method executes. The destructor of std::vector will ensure any memory it allocated is freed. As long as the T type of the vector<T> has proper C++ deallocation semantics all will be well.

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