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。

If I understood correctly, you don't explicitly free memory (which can be freed because you still have a pointer) and rely on OS to free it during process termination. Though this may seem okay for simple program, consider the situation where your code is moved into a library and becomes a part of some resident daemon process running 24/7. Say this daemon spawns a thread each time it needs to do something useful using your code and say it spawns thousands of threads every hour. In this case you will get real memory leak.

不幸的是，这种情况在现实生活中并非不可能，一致的内存管理技术可能会使您的生活更轻松。

在程序的最后一行省略释放内存是完全可以接受的，因为释放它不会对任何事情产生影响，因为程序再也不需要内存了。

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:)

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%.

这个问题已经讨论得令人作呕了。最重要的是，内存泄漏是一个bug，必须修复。如果第三方库泄露了内存，就会让人怀疑它还有什么问题，不是吗?如果你要造一辆汽车，你会使用一个偶尔漏油的发动机吗?毕竟，引擎是别人做的，所以这不是你的错，你不能修，对吧?

最佳实践是始终释放所分配的空间，特别是在编写旨在在整个系统正常运行期间运行的内容时，即使在退出之前进行清理。

这是一个非常简单的规则。以无泄漏为目标进行编程，可以很容易地发现新的泄漏。你会卖给别人一辆你自己造的车吗?你知道它一熄火就会喷到地上?：）

清理函数中的一些if () free()调用是廉价的，为什么不使用它们呢?