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Paul Tuohy wrote:
A memory leak is where a program overwrites memory to which it should not
have access. Worse case scenario being where it overwrites runnable code in
memory (as happened or earlier versions of Windows but happens a lot less
now)

I thought a memory leak is where memory keeps getting allocated and doesn't get deallocated after it's no longer needed.

What you're describing sounds more like a buffer overflow to me.

david


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