Lint sees that ownership of allocated memory is taken by a constructor if the owning object isn't "new'd". But if the owning object is "new'd", then Lint does not understand this. See the example below, which works in the online demo.

This was discussed in this thread, as well as several others:
http://www.gimpel.com/Discussion.cfm?ThreadID=808

//lint -e438, -e529, -e1502, -e1712, -e1788, -e714

include <memory>

struct A { A(char *){}; };
void g( )
{
// This results in a 429 warning.
char * ptr1 = (char *) malloc(10);
A *a1 = new A(ptr1);

// This does not result in a 429 warning.
char * ptr2 = (char *) malloc(10);
A a2(ptr2);
}