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Re: Leak Sanitizer - how to suppress leaks



> On Sep 12, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
> To me it seems apparent that the sanatiser is detecting the local variable
> in main() go out of scope when main() returns, and so the value it contains
> (the pointer to the allocated memory) is lost, and so it is determined that
> there is a leak.   For any other function that would often be true, but for
> main() it never is.

It seems obvious that the sanitizer should special-case main().

-- thorpej



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