Re: Xserver crashes (Re: bug in gnustep-make / my last mail (pantomime))

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 12:11 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> (btw - totally unrelated - but gnustep-gui has the same problem, because
> it never frees any NSFont object, so if you mechanically loop on all
> NSFonts via gnustep-gui's API, you may well get out of memory, even if 
> you
> theoretically release all NSFonts correctly!  I have always said we need
> to fix this, and NSFont objects *must* be destroyed and not kept around
> forever :-)

Since you pointed it out ... I decided to fix it.
The caching now holds on to fonts only as long as something is using 
them -
so if they don't get released now, the problem is elsewhere.