Memory leak

[Lennart Sorensen]

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??

A chunk of code allocating some memory and then forgetting to free it
when it is done with it.  The longer the program runs the more memory it
is using.

It also happens a lot with X applications because some people don't pay
attension to the docs that say when you use function x to ask the X
server for something, it will allocate some memory and pass the data to
you and then you must free it.  Many people figure if they didn't
allocate it, they don't need to free it.

Len Sorensen
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