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Asked: 2026-05-15T10:36:50+00:00

Basically, on surfaces that are going to exist right until the program terminates, do

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Basically, on surfaces that are going to exist right until the program terminates, do I need to run SDL_FreeSurface() for each of them, or would SDL_Quit() take care of all this for me?

I ask mainly because the pointers to a number of my surfaces are class members, and therefore I would need to keep track of each class instance (in a global array or something) if I wanted to run SDL_FreeSurface() on each of their respective surfaces. If SDL_Quit() will do it all in one fell swoop for me, I’d much rather go with that 😀

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s been a while since I used SDL, but I’m pretty sure SDL_Quit just cleans up the screen surface (the main screen buffer that you set up at the beginning). You have to free the other surfaces you create manually or you get leaks. Of course, since they’re already class members, one way to do that easily would be to just free them up in the class destructor.

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