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Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any. (www.stroustrup.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A "true" memory leak isn't just memory that is never freed, it's memory that CAN'T be freed. Usually because the handle / pointer to it was thrown away.

The distinction isn't really all the important though, it all looks the same as far as how the program functions.