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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: valgrind leak I can't find
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:20:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-22, Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote:
> The first leak in the detailed report is this:
>
>==18005== 5 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 25
>==18005==    at 0x48407B4: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:381)
>==18005==    by 0x49E38E9: strdup (strdup.c:42)
>==18005==    by 0x10CAD4: vec_str_tests (vec_str_test.c:77)
>==18005==    by 0x109346: main (cx_test.c:26)
>
> vec_str_test.c:77 is:
>
>     vec_str_insert(&v1, 4, strdup("beta"));
>
> The reason I use strdup() is because my VecStr type takes ownership of
> the strings it holds.

Does your program free the vector before terminating, including
iterating over the string elements and freeing them individually?

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