Re: Memory Leak in GDO

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 09:52 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, at 09:44 AM, Rene Cornils wrote:
>
> > I've checked the simple example with 1.0.2. Although memory growing
> > seems not to be as rapid as before, both sides still comsume more and
> > more memory. The server starts with 2.4MB (top), reaching more than
> > 10MB after some minutes (client running).
> >
> > If this problem doesn't occur on your system, what's the trick?
> > I'm using gcc 2.95.2, ffcall-1.8a, make-1.0.1, objc-1.0.1,
> > base-1.0.2 compiled with
> >     LIBS=-posix; ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep
> >     make shared=yes debug=no install
>
> I left the client and server running for hours - without any measurable 
> memory leak.
>
> I'm running using gcc-3.0, with make and base from CVS
>
> I'm not using ffcall on my system ... I'll look there for possible 
> leaks.

Ok ... tracked down to ffcall related problems.
I've committed a fix to CVS.

Thanks for the bug report ... it helped solve a problem that was 
puzzling me on a machine
where the ffcall library was used.