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I don’t know where you get your analysis from. Most parts like the abstract syntax tree is kept because it is used in all different passes.<\/p>\n

It might be that some, especially simple compilers don’t free stuff because it’s not considered necessary for a C compiler. It’s a one shot compilation unit operation and than the process ends.<\/p>\n

Of course if you build a compiler library like tinycc did you need to free everything, but even this might happen within a final custom heap clearance at the end of the compilation run.<\/p>\n

I have not seen this ever be a problem in real world. But i don’t do embedded stuff where a lack of resources can be something to worry.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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