How do memory leaks happen?

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A memory leak occurs when a program allocates memory but fails to release it, leading to reduced performance or crashes.

Memory leaks happen when dynamically allocated memory is not freed after use.
They can lead to increased memory usage over time, causing slowdowns.
Example: In C/C++, forgetting to call 'free()' on allocated memory results in a leak.
Garbage-collected languages like Java can still have leaks if references are held unnecessarily.

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Memory Leak is a situation where there are objects present in the heap that are no longer used, but the garbage collector is unable to remove them from memory

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memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program

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Through cyclic references. Usually seen in closures.

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Memory leak causes due to allocating memory block inside the heap memory segment and forget to delete. Memory leak is serious issue for servers by which definition never terminate.

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