Re: lynx-dev dev.11 leaks dramatically (allocHTLine)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:15:08AM +0300, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 2-Dec-2002 18:54 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:43:05AM +0300, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> >> Reading a diff between dev9e snapshot and dev11
> >> I found out that the line/pool code is broken:
> >> the last line is always alloced outside the pool and never freed.
> >> In my code the last line was a fixed buffer.
> >> Tom?
> 
> > That was in the chunk I undid, since something in it frees memory more
> > than once, and has a repeatable display problem.  Since it was the main
> > cause of delay for the past week, I put it aside to work on for dev.12
> 
> I would better remove all line/pool code
> then release something that leaks 1042 bytes each output line.

granted, but the quick check I ran didn't show that to me (and I did spend
the remainder of the time working on things that I did know were bugs).

If that's the only new issue, perhaps we can resolve it in a shorter time.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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