[Bug c++/66339] g++ 5.1.0 Generates memory leak

[trippels at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66339

Markus Trippelsdorf <trippels at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Markus Trippelsdorf <trippels at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to lh_mouse from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #3)
> > OK, whatever weird definition of leak you are using is irrelevant. The
> > memory is still in use until the program exits, and there is still a pointer
> > to it. It is not lost, or forgotten about, it is in use by the run-time.
> 
> That is an ostrich strategy.
> 
> The runtime is amenable for deallocation of the pool because it is the
> runtime that has allocated the pool. The runtime shall free it, by
> definition, when it is no longer 'in use by the run-time', but not never.

See: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64535
for further motivation.