Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Note that, technically, those are not leaks in real need of >> plugging because they get called only once, i.e. they do not >> accumulate ("leak") unused memory. Of course, it's still a good >> idea to remove them, if nothing else, then to remove false >> positives from DEBUG_MALLOC builds. > > I love that valgrind distinguishes these from "unreachable" unfreed > memory.
By the way, now that valgrind exists, it may be time to consider retiring DEBUG_MALLOC, a venerable hack from pre-valgrind days. I'm kind of surprised that anyone even uses it. :-)