IOC is inside Clang-head

[Walter Bright]

On 1/31/2013 7:27 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 10:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> valgrind is immensely useful for C, but a lot less so for D as D guarantees
>> initialization and a GC takes care of much of the rest.
>
> On the subject of valgrind and D's garbage collection -- when I've run any D
> program through valgrind's memory check, it always reports a small amount of
> memory that has failed to deallocate at the end of the program (IIRC it's about
> 3 allocs that valgrind thinks have not been deallocated).
>
> Is there any particular reason why this should be so?  Is it an error in D or in
> valgrind's tracking of D's memory management?

GC isn't designed to 100% deallocate all unused memory. But C programs typically 
are.