[buddy]

what is mean by memory leak in c programming ?? can anyone explain with an example??plz.

[DaWei]

If you allocate memory dynamically from the heap, then don't return it before the program exits, it's no longer available for other programs.

[listendinesh]

Here is the example

int main()
{
char *buffer1;
char *buffer2;
buffer1 = (char *)malloc(5*sizeof(char));
buffer2 = (char *)malloc(5*sizeof(char));
buffer1 = buffer2; // This will lead Memory leak
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.
.
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}