From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:29:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind
Message-ID: <AANLkTikg5Hcsz+COYrDtxc01tNay_D97aVHoMP06aO1J@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 22:19, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

...and nothing but DOS, Windows 9x and ME does that.