Renidrag

"memory leak refers to memory that is not deallocated"

How long do these variables or arrays etc. remain in memory if it is not deallocated in the code?


When the program is shut down, that must distroy all the objects, variables and things like that, right?

Derek Stone

Nope. When a memory leak occurs it persists until the OS either cleans it up or reboots.

Generally most memory leaks are the result of Window's resources that weren't cleaned up after use, not variables (fine line). One example would being calling CreateDC without calling DeleteDC after the operation was finished with drawing.

-CL