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Allocations of memory that were not released

Reports memory allocations (using either 'new' or 'malloc()') that were not released before becoming inaccessible

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

CppDFAMemoryLeak
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | C/C++ | Data Flow Analysis

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Allocations of memory that were not released inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection CppDFAMemoryLeak

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

CLion 2025.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

CLion, 2025.3

Last modified: 03 December 2025