Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Thread memory leak reported

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-26 15:45:15

Sohail Somani wrote:

>>> Any dynamically allocated memory that isn't freed is a Bad
>> Thing imho.
>>
>> Because?
>
> Was it forgotten? Was it intentional? If the assumption is it will
> always be freed, then there is no ambiguity.

Seems clearly intentional to me - the allocation is invoked by call_once and 
is a textbook implementation of a thread safe singleton. A "this is not a 
leak" comment may help.