看来你对“内存泄漏”的定义是“我自己不清理的内存”。所有现代操作系统都会在程序退出时释放它。然而，由于这是一个c++问题，您可以简单地将所讨论的内存包装在适当的std::auto_ptr中，当它超出作用域时将调用delete。

不，你不应该有漏洞，操作系统会为你清理。原因(据我所知，在上面的答案中没有提到)是你永远不知道什么时候你的main()会在另一个程序中作为函数/模块被重用。如果你的main()在其他人的软件中经常被调用，那么这个软件就会有内存泄漏，随着时间的推移会消耗内存。

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如果一直使用到main()的尾部，则根本不是泄漏(当然，假设有受保护的内存系统!)

事实上，在进程关闭时释放对象绝对是你能做的最糟糕的事情……操作系统必须将你创建的每一页回退。关闭文件句柄，数据库连接，当然，但释放内存是愚蠢的。

You have to first realize that there's a big difference between a perceived memory leak and an actual memory leak. Very frequently analysis tools will report many red herrings, and label something as having been leaked (memory or resources such as handles etc) where it actually isn't. Often times this is due to the analysis tool's architecture. For example, certain analysis tools will report run time objects as memory leaks because it never sees those object freed. But the deallocation occurs in the runtime's shutdown code, which the analysis tool might not be able to see.

尽管如此，仍然会有一些时候，您会遇到实际的内存泄漏，这些泄漏要么很难发现，要么很难修复。现在的问题是，是否可以将它们保留在代码中?

The ideal answer is, "no, never." A more pragmatic answer may be "no, almost never." Very often in real life you have limited number of resources and time to resolve and endless list of tasks. When one of the tasks is eliminating memory leaks, the law of diminishing returns very often comes in to play. You could eliminate say 98% of all memory leaks in an application in a week, but the remaining 2% might take months. In some cases it might even be impossible to eliminate certain leaks because of the application's architecture without a major refactoring of code. You have to weigh the costs and benefits of eliminating the remaining 2%.

在这类问题中，语境就是一切。就我个人而言，我不能忍受漏洞，在我的代码中，如果它们突然出现，我就会竭尽全力去修复它们，但修复漏洞并不总是值得的，当人们按小时支付我的报酬时，我有时会告诉他们，我的费用不值得我修复他们代码中的漏洞。让我给你们举个例子:

I was triaging a project, doing some perf work and fixing a lot of bugs. There was a leak during the applications initialization that I tracked down, and fully understood. Fixing it properly would have required a day or so refactoring a piece of otherwise functional code. I could have done something hacky (like stuffing the value into a global and grabbing it some point I know it was no longer in use to free), but that would have just caused more confusion to the next guy who had to touch the code.

就我个人而言，我一开始就不会以这种方式编写代码，但我们大多数人并不总是在设计良好的原始代码库上工作，有时你必须务实地看待这些事情。修复150字节泄漏所花费的时间可以用来改进算法，从而减少兆字节的内存。

最终，我决定为一个使用大约1g内存并运行在专用机器上的应用程序泄露150个字节不值得修复，所以我写了一条评论说它被泄露了，为了修复它需要改变什么，以及为什么当时不值得。

当应用程序关闭时，可以认为最好不要释放内存。

理论上，操作系统应该释放应用程序使用的资源，但总有一些资源是这个规则的例外。所以要小心。

退出应用程序的好处是:

操作系统只释放一个块，而不是很多很多小块。这意味着关机速度要快得多。尤其是在内存管理缓慢的Windows上。

只是退出的坏处其实有两点

很容易忘记释放操作系统没有跟踪的资源，或者操作系统可能会等待一段时间才释放。一个例子是TCP套接字。 内存跟踪软件将报告在退出时未释放的所有内容为泄漏。

因此，您可能希望有两种关机模式，一种是针对最终用户的快速且不友好的关机模式，另一种是针对开发人员的缓慢且彻底的关机模式。只是要确保两者都测试:)