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A common error when Programming, especially when programming in langauages that has no Garbage Collection.

The error occurs when a program/the programmer fails to release allocated memory to the system handling physical memory, which is often a Operating system.

This is a usual problem of c and c++, so many tools exist to help detect these problems in c.

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