-#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
-// Clear up event hash table contents or we can get problems
-// when C++ is cleaning up the static object
+// wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING considers memory freed from the static objects dtors
+// leaked, so we need to manually clean up all event tables before checking for
+// the memory leaks when using it, however this breaks re-initializing the
+// library (i.e. repeated calls to wxInitialize/wxUninitialize) because the
+// event tables won't be rebuilt the next time, so disable this by default
+#if defined(__WXDEBUG__) && wxUSE_MEMORY_TRACING
+