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		vqsubu16 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding C++ Ownership System Why there is the calling of "read(buffer.get());" in the first example (inside of the 'while' loop)? It is a 'char *buffer' type, unless I'm mistaken raw pointers don't have methods/member functions?

dundarious 18 days ago [–]

copy-paste error given the next example uses a smart ptr type that has a .get() to get the actual pointer.

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