Memory leak

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

Memory that is allocated using malloc or similar memory allocation system, and not freed when it is no longer used.

It normally occurs in functions that allocate memory and return a pointer to that memory expecting the programmer to free it.

It also occurs when the programmer free less than the amount allocated. The 'off by one' problem produces some of the most difficult memory leaks to track down and fix.

I have also noticed the memory leak in firefox on Fedora core 4.

Bill

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:49:04AM -0500, wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
> In a recent post Lennart Sorensen referred to memory leaks in Firefox Browser.
> What exactly is a memory leak in this context??
> John
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