Definition & Meaning | English word DEALLOCATION

Definitions of DEALLOCATION

1. The act of deallocating.
2. (computing) The release of a portion of storage that had previously been allocated to a specific task.

Examples of Using DEALLOCATION in a Sentence

• In other cases, cleanup is performed prior to deallocation, particularly destroying member objects (in manual memory management), or deleting references from the object to other objects to decrement reference counts (in reference counting).
• Resource allocation (or acquisition) is done during object creation (specifically initialization), by the constructor, while resource deallocation (release) is done during object destruction (specifically finalization), by the destructor.
• This feature is often used to manage resource allocation and deallocation, like opening and then automatically closing files or freeing up memory, called Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII).
• In contrast, when memory becomes unreachable in dynamic memory allocation implementations that require explicit deallocation, the memory can no longer be explicitly deallocated.
• Mismatched free – when multiple allocators are in use, attempting to free memory with a deallocation function of a different allocator.

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