This is a small exposition on an unexpected "memory leak" I encountered when writing a Zig program. We will mainly focus on a very simple allocation pattern and see how it causes a "leak" (you will see why I am putting it in quotes) when using a particular allocator from Zig's stdlib.
Advent of Code 2022 gave me an excuse to learn the Zig programming language. It is touted to…

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