Re: Memory leak in keyboard variables?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the problem is that font_clear_cache is incorrectly written.
> For some reason, it assumes that the font cache entries have the form

>   (font-spec [entity1 entity2...])

> when in fact, they have the form

>   (font-spec entity1 entity2...)

> The following patch to font_clear_cache frees 60-70k of memory per
> terminal.

Ah, it seems that your patch is correct.

> Do you know why font_clear_cache was written this way,

In the early version of font-backend codes,
font_driver->list returns a vector.  I changed it to return
a list at sometime, but have forgotten to adjust
font_clear_cache.

> and whether there
> could be any other places in the font code that make this incorrect
> assumption?

I've just read through font.c, but the other places look ok.

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Kenichi Handa
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