[quote]What I have instead is a report (as attached) from MSFT VS2005 reporting memory not being freed on exit. [/quote]As mentioned by Axel, we intentionally do not delete all the object at the end of the process both to avoid problem with order of deletion/library unloading and to avoid wasting time running unnecessary code.
[quote]I do not have a continual growth of memory utilization during run time.[/quote]Then there is most likely no unexpected ‘leak’.
[quote] I went to this build because the debug version of the 5.26 installable image (build for VS 2008) would crash on exit. [/quote]Do you still get a crash on exit? If not, the problem is probably solved.
[quote]I will do more testing around the dll loads/unloads if you think that would help or is there something build specific for the root code that I can validate ?[/quote]To validate that the build is correct you could try to run some of the example in $ROOTSYS/tutorials or build and execute some of test in $ROOTSYS/test (in particular stress.exe).
Cheers,
Philippe.