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Sep 26, 2011
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Sending a window a WM_DESTROY message is like prank calling somebody pretending to be the police

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A customer was trying to track down a memory leak in their program. Their leak tracking tool produced the stacks which allocated memory that was never freed, and they all seemed to come from , which is a DLL that comes with Windows. The customer naturally contacted Microsoft to report what appeared to be a memory leak in Windows. I was one of th...

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