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Bug 4749

Summary: SDL_GetError causing memory leaks
Product: SDL Reporter: blitron9000
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.10   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5041

Description blitron9000 2019-08-02 12:54:35 UTC 
When using SDL_GetError() my memory leak checker returned this  
New fresh storage (type char *) passed as implicitly temp (not
                    released): SDL_GetError()
  A memory leak has been detected. Storage allocated locally is not released
  before the last reference to it is lost. (Use -mustfreefresh to inhibit
  warning)

Im assuming this memory leak caused my programs to randomly segfault when using SDL_GetError() as the program had no issues running once it was was deleted.

this happened with SDL_Log and printf.

my operating system is: anarchy linux x86_64 Linux 5.2.5-arch1-1-ARCH using X11 and XFCE4 DE