Singleton Destructors

Question

Should Singleton objects that don\'t use instance/reference counters be considered memory leaks in C++?

Without a counter that calls for explicit deletion of the singlet

Answer 1

Any heap memory allocated by your process and not freed (deleted) will be reclaimed by the OS. If you're using the most common implementation of the singleton, which uses static variables, this would be cleaned up upon your application's termination as well.

*This does not mean that you should go around new-ing pointers and never cleaning them up though.