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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2010-08-14@kanis.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:19:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimrNv0VT_Nrmz_R0sFbL8QfMKPQjXhVJD95=KbE@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1va760ip.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but doesn't it essentially sit at the end of main(), only for _exit(2)
> to clean after us?

I don't know if you consider this relevant, but in Windows 9x (and ME)
allocated memory isn't returned to the global heap on process
termination unless explicitly free'd.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-09 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-09  9:48 [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Ivan Kanis
2010-08-09 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-09 20:19   ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
2010-08-09 20:29     ` Alex Riesen
2010-08-10  3:26   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:28     ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrys Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:32     ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] write-tree: Avoid leak when index refers to an invalid object Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10  3:33     ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] read-tree: stop leaking tree objects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:27     ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:31       ` [PATCH 1/7] init: plug tiny one-time memory leak Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 23:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  4:34           ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:32       ` [PATCH 2/7] lockfile: introduce alloc_lock_file() to avoid valgrind noise Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 16:30         ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-10-02 16:43           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 20:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 20:21           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 21:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 22:17               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:35       ` [PATCH 3/7] environment.c: remove unused variable Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:36       ` [PATCH 4/7] setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  9:25         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-02  8:38       ` [PATCH 5/7] Introduce malloc/strdup/pathdup variants for permanent allocations Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:39       ` [PATCH 6/7] environment: use alloc_permanent() for computed git_dir and co Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02  8:41       ` [PATCH 7/7] commit-tree: free commit message before exiting Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 18:14         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 18:26           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 20:12             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 20:50               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  0:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  4:18           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04  7:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04  7:56               ` Jonathan Nieder

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