In <[email protected]>, on 10/10/2013
at 02:25 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
> Except for the fact that "memory leak" is an established term
>that most folks agree on and recognize, I would
>support the terminology "failure to free" error.
How would you describe a GETMAIN 0f 4096 and a FREEMAIN of 2048? It's
not a failure to free, but rather a failure to free the full amount.
The established term, "storage leak", is both accurate and concise.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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