Frederic Da Vitoria wrote > I think that Brian is asking if a memory leak could eat the system's > memory > irreversibly. IIUC in Windows, when the program is stopped, all it's > memory > is freed, even if the program leaked memory. I don't know about Linux, but > I'd be surprised if it weren't the same. > > -- > Frederic Da Vitoria > (davitof) > > Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - > http://www.april.org > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist -
> fpc-pascal@.freepascal > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Yes that is exactly what I was asking. For a high reliable system running 24/7 my fear using Object Oriented code vs procedural code is exactly what you mentioned . If there is a serious leak , or even a small one for an extended period of time , it can take down the OS. I have seen this happen with Sun OS and a 3rd party driver that leaked and caused the OS to crash after an extended period of time. -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-general.1045716.n5.nabble.com/FPC-Heap-Management-sub-allocation-tp5720419p5720428.html Sent from the Free Pascal - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
