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Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:19:47 +0200
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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.