在C或c++应用程序中出现内存泄漏是可以接受的吗?
如果分配一些内存并一直使用到应用程序中的最后一行代码(例如，全局对象的析构函数)，会怎样?只要内存消耗不随时间增长，那么当应用程序终止时(在Windows、Mac和Linux上)，是否可以信任操作系统为您释放内存?如果内存一直被使用，直到被操作系统释放，您会认为这是真正的内存泄漏吗?
如果是第三方库将这种情况强加给您，该怎么办?会拒绝使用第三方库，不管它有多好?
我只看到了一个实际的缺点，那就是这些良性泄漏将在内存泄漏检测工具中显示为误报。
当前回答
除非“使用”的内存量不断增长，否则我不认为这是内存泄漏。有一些未释放的内存，虽然不是理想的，但不是一个大问题，除非所需的内存数量不断增长。
其他回答
一般情况下，如果遇到无法避免的内存泄漏，则需要更加认真地考虑对象所有权问题。
但对于你的问题，我的回答是在产品代码中，是的。在开发过程中，没有。这听起来可能有些倒退，但我的理由是:
In the situation you describe, where the memory is held until the end of the program, it's perfectly okay to not release it. Once your process exits, the OS will clean up anyway. In fact, it might make the user's experience better: In a game I've worked on, the programmers thought it would be cleaner to free all the memory before exiting, causing the shutdown of the program to take up to half a minute! A quick change that just called exit() instead made the process disappear immediately, and put the user back to the desktop where he wanted to be.
但是，您对调试工具的看法是正确的:它们会突然发作，而且所有的假阳性可能会使查找真正的内存泄漏变得很痛苦。正因为如此，总是编写释放内存的调试代码，并在发布时禁用它。
在以前，我可能会说是的，在你的程序中让一些内存泄漏有时是可以接受的(它仍然是快速原型)，但现在有了5到6次的经验，即使是跟踪最小的泄漏也会发现一些真正严重的功能错误。在数据实体的生命周期还不清楚的情况下，让程序发生泄漏，显示出严重缺乏分析。总之，了解程序中发生了什么总是一个好主意。
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%.
在应用程序运行后清理操作系统在概念上没有问题。
这实际上取决于应用程序以及它将如何运行。在需要运行数周的应用程序中不断发生的泄漏必须得到处理，但是一个不需要太多内存就能计算结果的小工具应该不是问题。
许多脚本语言不垃圾收集循环引用是有原因的……对于它们的使用模式，这不是一个实际的问题，因此浪费的资源和浪费的内存一样多。
也许是在细枝末节:如果您的应用程序运行在UNIX上，可能会变成僵尸怎么办?在这种情况下，内存不会被操作系统回收。所以我说你应该在程序退出之前重新分配内存。
