Why does valgrind say basic SDL program is leaking memory?

Question

Here is the SDL program:

#include 

int main(int argc, char** argv){


  SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
  SDL_Surface* screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(         


        

Answer 1

Even for basic OpenGL "hello world" program without the full SDL, Valgrind gives me similar warnings deep inside the OpenGL libraries. It's peculiar, but I've assumed

• The library implementors know what they're doing (probably preallocating some small static buffers they never bother to free),
• Even if they don't, it's a one-time leak that'll be reclaimed by the OS when the program terminates,

and haven't lost much sleep over it.