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I think it's debatable whether storing in volatile memory is persisting, but ok. And by debatable I mean depends on what is happening exactly.
what, are they going to do memory dumps before every free() call?
I mean at this point you're just being intentionally obtuse no? You are correct of course, volatile memory if you consider it from a system point of view would be pretty asinine to try and store.
However, we're not really looking at this from a system's view are we? Clearly you ignored all the other examples I provided just to latch on to the memory argument. There are many other ways that this data could be stored in a transient fashion.