Why does valgrind say basic SDL program is leaking memory?

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Even for basic OpenGL “hello world” program without the full SDL, Valgrind gives me similar warnings deep inside the OpenGL libraries. It’s peculiar, but I’ve assumed

  • The library implementors know what they’re doing (probably preallocating some small static buffers they never bother to free),
  • Even if they don’t, it’s a one-time leak that’ll be reclaimed by the OS when the program terminates,

and haven’t lost much sleep over it.

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