Re: [boost] [shared_ptr] how does quick_allocator free its memory pool?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-14 11:43:20

gchen wrote:
> I am trying to enable BOOST_SP_USE_QUICK_ALLOCATOR while using
> shared_ptr, so to make shared_ptr to use quick_allocator to
> alloc/dealloc memory,
>
> But it seems that quick_allocator never free the memory pool (blocks)
> after my program exits, do I miss something?

It doesn't. After your program exits, all memory is automatically freed by 
the OS. There's no need to free it explicitly, except maybe to keep 
simplistic leak checkers happy.