Memory leak cleanup

[Fergus Deffely]

We've been having an argument in the office about when exactly leaked
memory is returned to the system.
I believe Windows 2000/XP cleans up the memory when the "leaky"
application exits, however I seem to remember that in Win95/98 a
reboot is necessary before the leaked memory is recovered.
Anyone know for certain?

Fergus

[Stephen Kellett]

Post by Fergus Deffely
We've been having an argument in the office about when exactly leaked
memory is returned to the system.
I believe Windows 2000/XP cleans up the memory when the "leaky"
application exits, however I seem to remember that in Win95/98 a
reboot is necessary before the leaked memory is recovered.
Anyone know for certain?

Correct for Windows NT and above. For Win9x I have no idea (although I'd
imagine the same, except that for handle related resources, you may be
out of luck).