lclint-interest message 129

From seebs@solon.com Sun Dec 22 14:49:35 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:18:57 -0600 (CST)
From: Peter Seebach 
To: lclint-interest@larch.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: FILE object resource leaks

The problem is, it's not a leak to never fclose() a FILE, unless you
terminate abnormally.  Or, at least, it's guaranteed that they're closed
at termination... How would we represent that?

It's actually fairly hard to identify a memory leak which recovers before
termination; I had a bug like this, where my program would get up into
the 20-30 MB range, even though it was only *using* about 20k of memory,
but since it freed it all before exiting, it was fairly hard to tell.

-s