Ornstein, Adam wrote:
I have an odd developer question. Why should developers care about memory
leaks in their programs? The OS cleans up the extra junk anyways. Is there
a real technical reason that we would need to get rid of all memory leaks?
Some memory leaks correspond to initialization. On all but a handful of
platforms (eg, TI-89 calculator), you can safely ignore them. However,
allocations which are done while the program is running should be freed, or
else they could pile up indefinitely until your program runs out of memory
and crashes.
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