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A comment on Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs. Parent comment

Re:Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs by shakna on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:45AM (#21927534)
> Also, this "memory leak" is only an issue on pre-1990 operating systems as "current" operating systems have no trouble reclaiming unfreed memory

Not just that, the OS is faster to reclaim the unfreed memory than if the program was cleaning it up.

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Re:Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs by _rtld_global_ro on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @10:18AM (#21928312)
It's only true if the program is about to exit, for long running programs like daemons, ``memory leak`` is still a thing.
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