From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@YAHOO.COM>,
zsh-workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Memorey leak with PS4 usage.
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 05:45:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000601054553.ZM29480@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000601032714.13056.qmail@web1303.mail.yahoo.com>
On May 31, 8:27pm, Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
} Subject: PATCH: Memorey leak with PS4 usage.
}
} There seems to be a memory leak issue with the use of promptexpand.
} I've included a patch for utils.c.
What leads you to this conclusion?
dupstring() allocates off zsh's internal heap. Freeing a pointer off the
heap is a Bad Thing. The heap is allocated and freed in large chunks that
zsh subdivides as necessary.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-01 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-01 3:27 Felix Rosencrantz
2000-06-01 5:45 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-06-01 6:25 Felix Rosencrantz
2000-06-01 9:06 ` Peter Stephenson
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