Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Building RPMs with -Dlint would mean performance > > penalty because some programs (e.g. sort) would explicitly release complex > > data structures just before exit, which is wasteful. > > I think it may be a bit presumptuous to call cleanup wasteful. > > Proper cleanup is inefficient in in some cases, but execution time is > only one metric. It may not be an important metric, either. > > Proper cleanup is necessary in other cases, like performing security > testing and evaluation. Memory checkers like Asan and Valgrind can't > differentiate between the "good" memory leaks and the "bad" ones.
We discussed this already in the thread starting at [1]. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-10/msg00026.html
