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

From: Rich Cook (rcook_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-26 15:53:33

Ah, but does it work on AIX?  :-)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.  (My posts are getting ignored, so I assume  
nobody uses boost on AIX.  Either that or I'm an impatient crybaby.   
Bummer!)

On Aug 26, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:

> 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.
>
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