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Re:Does memory leak? (1995) by amelius on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:41PM (#22392205)
Just read docs that were written in the 70s, before the advent of garbage collection.
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Re:Does memory leak? (1995) by p_l on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:10PM (#22393340)
Garbage Collection is from 1959, though - and Unix & C's original model pretty much matches "bump allocate then die" with sbrk/brk and lack of support for moving.

Fully static allocation is the norm though for most "small" embedded work.

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