A memory leak is a common and dangerous problem. It is a type of resource leak. In C language, a memory leak occurs when you allocate a block of memory using the memory management function and forget to release it.
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int main ()
{
char * pBuffer = malloc(sizeof(char) * 20);
/* Do some work */
return 0; /*Not freeing the allocated memory*/
}
Note: once you allocate a memory than allocated memory does not allocate to another program or process until it gets free.
