Detecting Memory Leaks

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:04:00 -0400
Josh Pollak <pardsbane at offthehill.org> wrote:

> As someone else said on this list, its possible you don't have a
> memory leak, but rather the program is allocating memory and just not 
> deallocating it until much later. Also, as they said the memory might 
> not be returned to the OS just because you deallocated it. 
Most allocators never return memory back to the OS, and I am sure that
this is true with glibc. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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