Memory Leakage: Cosy Cpp build leaks memoery extensively

[Amit Kumar Malaker]

Compilers generally leaks memory, but here simple hello world program is leaking a lot of memory.

==24716== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==24716== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==24716== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==24716== Command: ./Cosy hw.cosy
==24716== 
Hello, Cosy!!!
==24716== 
==24716== HEAP SUMMARY:
==24716==     in use at exit: 1,132,411 bytes in 743 blocks
==24716==   total heap usage: 783 allocs, 40 frees, 1,215,053 bytes allocated
==24716== 
==24716== LEAK SUMMARY:
==24716==    definitely lost: 4,259 bytes in 116 blocks
==24716==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==24716==      possibly lost: 1,069,064 bytes in 479 blocks
==24716==    still reachable: 59,088 bytes in 148 blocks
==24716==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==24716== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==24716== 
==24716== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==24716== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

What is your view on this?

[Anders Nissen]

Hi, thanks for taking an interest in Cosy!

Thank you for bringing this topic to my attention. I haven't considered memory leaks at all and have done no investigations into reducing leaks. I'll definitely look into what's leaking memory in the future and will keep this issue open as a reminder to do so.