Can I force std::vector to leave a memory leak?

Question

Can I force std::vector to not deallocate its memory after the vector goes out of scope?

For example, if I have

Answer 1

Not sure but, yes.

You can create a custum allocator who do nothing when deallocate => leak

Or may be you can jsut create your vectoron the heap so it will leak anyway.

int* foo() {
    std::vector* v = new std::vector(10,1); 
    return &((*v)[0]);
    // no delete
}

int main()
{
    int* bar = foo();
    std::cout << bar[5] << std::endl;
}