[linrad] Re: Memory leakage.

[Robert McGwier <comcast.net; rwmcgwier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif writes the code  C and assembly so for Leif this means if he does a 
malloc, calloc, realloc, etc. and if he then no longer needs the memory, 
he must do a free on the no longer used memory.

Bob



Richard Hosking wrote:
> Lost memory is allocated when an object in C++ is created , but not 
> released when the object is destroyed. This is usually performed by 
> the destructor for the class if the class has been written properly.
> This results in increasing useless RAM utilization and eventually disk 
> swapping, slowing everything down.
> (hope I am not telling you things you already know.. :)  )
>
> Richard


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