Memory leak tool tells me zero leaks but memory footprint keeps rising

Question

I\'m running through some memory profiling for my application in SDK 3.2 and I used the \'Leak\' profiler to find all my memory leaks and I plugged all of them up. This is a sc

Answer 1

You can have a continuously growing program without necessarily leaking memory. Suppose you read words from the input and store them in dynamically allocated blocks of memory in a linked list. As you read more words, the list keeps growing, but all the memory is still reachable via the list, so there is no memory leak.