Syslog frees memory??

[Michael Wieher]

Ok, so I've been struggling with a strange issue and a broken destructor.

btw, anyone know a single-word for the idea "situations so complex
they cannot be reproduced"

Here is situation:
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class {
   datax ** y;
   data * b;
   int numbofY;
}

destructor:
   free all in y (via for-loop & numbofY)

causes seg-fault unless i syslog something in there

however

destructor:
   free all in y(same)
   freee b

works OK

any idea why syslog makes this failure to free(b) acceptable during
execution/exit of program?