What's stopping me from putting an infinite while loop in the deleter function of a smart pointer? Or other code injection? [closed]

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std::unique_ptr<Bar, void(*)(Bar*)> bar(new Bar(), [](Bar* b){ while(true); });

Declare it and immediately exit. Attempting to destruct it will cause the program to hang. Works for shared pointers too.

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Yes, but you might as well just do while (true); without the smart pointer?? – HolyBlackCat
C++ won't prevent you from writing stupid programs. No language does. – Mat
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What's stopping me from sabotaging myself? Is that your question? – sweenish
Also note that due to so-called Progress guarantee imposed by C++ language standard, such endless loops with no side effects cause the program to have undefined behavior, and thus may be completely optimized away, if compiler decides so, for example. – heap underrun