Memory leaks in compiler

[Kai Henningsen]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:46:12PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 16 January 2008 22:09, Diego Novillo wrote:
> 
> > On 1/16/08 4:16 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > 
> >> Because it's not a bug?  You're changing the code to silence a false
> >> negative, which this is what we here in England call "putting the cart
> >> before the horse."  If we clean up all the memory regions on closedown
> >> we'll be wasting CPU time.  And for what?
> > 
> > I agree.  Freeing memory right before we exit is a waste of time.
> 
>   So, no gcc without an MMU and virtual memory platform ever again?  Shame, it
> used to run on Amigas.

You mean the Amiga didn't automatically free all process memory on
termination, the way MS-DOS did (without an MMU and virtual memory
platform)? (Unless, of course, you expressly asked for that not to
happen, by calling "terminate and stay resident".)