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leak
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur
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when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished,
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so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion
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as new allocation requests come in. memory leak has its own entry; one might
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also refer, to, say, a window handle leak in a window system.
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