Re: Memory leak in keyboard variables?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Now, input-decode-map is defined in keyboard.c, using DEFVAR_KBOARD.  It
> is a Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd object, and if I'm not mistaken, such
> objects are not garbage-collected.

No, indeed, they're not GC'd: they're static.

> When the terminal is killed, are its keyboard's Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd
> objects freed?  As far as I can tell, they are not freed.  But I am no
> expert in this part of the code, so maybe someone else can clue me in.

The Lisp_Misc_Kboard_Objfwd only stores the location of the Lisp_Object
slot in the keyboard objects.  So the objects will becomes unreachable
when the keyboard object is freed.
Maybe the keyboard object is not freed when the terminal is freed?


        Stefan