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diff --git a/Ownership.md b/Ownership.md index 5484772..772153f 100644 --- a/Ownership.md +++ b/Ownership.md @@ -1,14 +1,16 @@ [[Rust]] -[[When boxes are deallocated]] +[[When heap data is deallocated]] [[Moved heap data principle]] [[Creating a reference to a variable is called borrowing]] --- -When we assign a Box to a name we say that name owns the box. Any time we copy the pointer to that box to another name we also pass ownership to that name. +When we assign a Box to a name we say that name owns the box. Any time we copy the *pointer* to that box to another name we also pass ownership to that name. After we pass ownership and move into a new scope the original variable is freed. Thus when we return to the original scope it is no longer possible to use it. +[[Passing a pointer to heap data as an argument to a function transfers its ownership]] + ![[Pasted image 20250804184242.png]] > Wherever the stack variable is greyed out means it is no longer the owner.
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