Valgrind reports errors for a very simple C program

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If the programme you are running through Valgrind is exactly the one you posted in your question, it clearly doesn’t have any memory leaks. In fact, you don’t even use malloc/free yourself!

It looks to me like these are spurious errors / false positives that Valgrind detects on OS X (only!), similar to what happened to myself some time ago.

If you have access to a different operating system, e.g. a Linux machine, try to analyze the programme using Valgrind on that system.

EDIT: I haven’t tried this myself, since I don’t have access to a Mac right now, but you should try what
M Oehm suggested: try to use a supressions file as mentioned in this other SO question.

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