Re: Could --disable-leaks be made a runtime switch?

[Avery Pennarun]

On 12/02/2008, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> There are a few functions that can be called to free up the "permanent"
> memory, but that's part of the --disable-leaks feature.

If those functions are in the library even without --disable-leaks,
though, you could call them from your app on *any* ncurses binary
distribution on any platform.  That would be handy... and I seem to
remember having done it before :)

valgrind is getting to be an indispensable tool for C/C++ developers,
so libraries that don't make it easy to cooperate with valgrind are
kind of a pain.  (glibc and openssl are other examples.)

Have fun,

Avery