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  3. June 2008

Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"

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 that was a buffer overflow. I thought a memory leak was where a program loses the ability to free allocated storage.

p = %alloc(10);
p = %alloc(20);

After the second assignment to p, it's impossible to free the first allocation.


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