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

Singletons are pretty much always a 'leak' with standard implementations. That is usually ok, though, since normally it's not like you want to unload your ability to do things like print to the console.