Hi Nicholas,

Thanks for the hint. Good to know all this.
Best,
S.

On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM, simone  
> marras<[email protected]> wrote:
>> ==18862==
>> ==18862== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0  
>> from 0)
>> ==18862== malloc/free: in use at exit: 4,436 bytes in 9 blocks.
>> ==18862== malloc/free: 9 allocs, 0 frees, 4,436 bytes allocated.
>> ==18862== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
>> ==18862== searching for pointers to 9 not-freed blocks.
>> ==18862== checked 1,124,356 bytes.
>> ==18862==
>> ==18862== LEAK SUMMARY:
>> ==18862==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==18862==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==18862==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==18862==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==18862==         suppressed: 4,436 bytes in 9 blocks.
>
> The Mac libc allocates some memory with malloc() but never frees it.
> There are some suppressions for this in darwin9.supp, which becomes
> part of default.supp, so that these aren't reported as leaks, because
> you have no control over them.
>
> The moral of the story is:  the code you write is not the only code  
> being run.
>
> Nick


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