Question

Could someone explain why I'm getting a memory leak with the following short / simple c++ code? Thanks!

Answer 1

int readFile(char fileName[], string type)
{
ifstream theFile (fileName);
if (!theFile.is_open() )
{
cout << "Could not open file: " << fileName << endl;
theFile.close();
exit(1);
}

//do stuff here

theFile.close();
return 1;
}


int main ( int argc, char *argv[])
{

int validFile = readFile(argv[1], "obj");

}

Answer 2

figured it out.