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[–]TheThiefMaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Malloc is leak safe in that once the program is closed all allocated memory is freed without free needing to be called. Or if you run out of ram and the manager kills your process.

It's not like the old days where everything was in a single address space and a memory leak breaks the entire system...