Re: Array<T>::nil_rep leaks memory

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Sep-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| Well, as much as I understand it, the static object will be correctly
| deallocated at the end of the program, while the new-allocated object
| (on heap, presumably) is *never* freed. It's not much of an issue, but
| it is a memory leak.

If that were true, then repeatedly running a program like

  int main (void) { char *x = new char [134217728]; return 0; }

would quickly make your system unusable.  But it does not, as the
resources allocated to the program are freed when the program exits.

jwe