Re: [Valgrind-users] 0 bytes definitely lost

[Olly B. <ol...@su...>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:00:17PM +0100, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> Could you be leaking zero-sized heap blocks?  If you do leak a zero-sized
> block, you really are losing memory because every heap block has
> administration bytes at the start and end.

It occurs to me that VALGRIND_COUNT_LEAKS has a flaw, as it tells you
how many bytes were leaked, not how many blocks.  So it'll effectively
ignore leaks of zero-sized blocks...

Cheers,
    Olly