Дана 24/09/22 07:59PM, Страхиња Радић написа: > Of course, that would cause a memory leak if the memory was assigned to > a variable, like this: > > char* tmp = malloc(13); > > otherwise, like this: > > malloc(13); > > the result is discarded and a warning is printed if the program is > compiled by GCC.
Correction/clarification: even if the result is discarded, this still causes the leak, just the pointer to the allocated memory is not assigned to a variable. This is easily verifiable by using ktrace(1)/kdump(1).
