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I have a worker thread which collects data from an external device. The worker thread keeps the main thread with the UI informed about its state. For this I'm using variations of:

SendMessage( hwndParentThread, WM_NOTIFY, 0, TEXT("Connection successful.")).

Now, the debugger complains about a memory leak. As I'm not really sure about what happens with the memory allocated for the strings I'm wondering whether the leak stems from the strings I pass between the threads (e.g. TEXT("Connection successful.")).

If anyone could point me into the right direction I would really appreciate it.

Remy Lebeau
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In C++ Literal text constants have static location (e.g. memory for "Connection successful." string is not allocated during function call). See this answer for details https://stackoverflow.com/a/349031/1025209.

I can't see any problems with your line of code. Is the memory leak exactly in this line?

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