From: Matthew Mastracci <mmastrac AT acs DOT ucalgary DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak.
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:08:40 -0600
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> Could someone please give me a complete description of what a memory leak
> really is?

A memory leak is when allocated memory is not freed.  I believe there's
even a DJGPP library to check for these things (it used to be called
Sentinel, but I don't remember its new name).

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