String literals causing small memory leak?

Question

I have a C function that is called thousands of times and I have noticed that it is the only possible place for a memory leak. I have used Valgrind and Totalview\'s

Answer 1

A string literal itself does not allocate or free memory, and therefore cannot leak.

Declaring them const won't change anything. Your problem is elsewhere.

Answer 2

Could those string literals like "HEADER" and "DATA" be causing my small leak?

Nope.

Answer 3

No. A string literal has static storage duration and so its storage is reserved prior to the program startup and its lifetime is the entire execution of the program.

Answer 4

Answer is yes, but it depends what does ItCreate do. Paste ItCreate function code.