Re: memory leak & patch

[Larry Jones]

Kenneth Lorber writes:
> 
> Sorry - I didn't mean to step on a design decision (I was just trying very
> hard to get Purify to be happy - BTW it's not happy yet.)

It wasn't so much a design decision as a lack of one.  :-)

But anyway, Purify's definition of a memory leak agrees with mine --
it's allocated memory that you no longer have a pointer to.  I haven't
run it on CVS recently, but it used to run the entire test suite, both
local and remote, with no memory leaks reported.  I'm not surprised that
you're finding problems on the experimental branch (there have been a
lot of structural changes there), but I would be surprised if you found
any on the stable branch.

-Larry Jones

Start tying the sheets together.  We'll go out the window. -- Calvin