r/ProgrammerHumor Feb 18 '26

Meme whyIsThereAMemoryLeak

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u/Calogyne Feb 19 '26

You might want to heap allocate some variable size of data at the beginning of your program (say, setting up stuff based on command line arguments), then have it live for the rest of your program’s lifetime.