20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
12:13
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 5:45 am, Colin Carter wrote:
I worked with a company where C++ programmers didn't keep tight tabs on memory and the system just chewed up memory until it crashed. Customers were forced to regularly re-boot Windows to clear memory. As Jerry said: poor programming. And remember that neither the C nor C++ standard require a memory cleanup. While you can assume that Unix, Linux, and OpenVMS will release all process acquired memory, this is not always true, AND even in these systems, there can be bugs in the memory management.
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9