Is there an acceptable limit for memory leaks?

Question

I\'ve just started experimenting with SDL in C++, and I thought checking for memory leaks regularly may be a good habit to form early on.

With this in mind, I\'ve been

Answer 1

It depends on your application. Some leaking may be unavoidable (due to the time needed to find the leak v.s. deadlines). As long as your application can run as long as you want, and not take an crazy amount of memory in that time it's probably fine.