On Monday 17 October 2016 11:12:23 Edward Welbourne wrote: > Liang Jian said: > > I would not to say "still reachable" simply means the allocation is > > > > not leaked. > > Whether you call it a leak or not is just a matter of labelling; what > matters is resource use. Does it increase without limit ? If it > doesn't, I'm not too fussed whether you call it a leak: it would, of > course, be nice to use less of any resource, but a bounded amount of > one-off resource use (that exit() releases) isn't a big deal (unless > it's a very big allocation).
Please don't equate 'resource' with 'memory'. Memory is just one of many resources a program may have acquired, and the _only_ resource which does not need to be released at program exit. Thanks, Marc -- Marc Mutz <[email protected]> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
