Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:20:22 GMT From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/98975: ncurses: tgetent leaks nearly 10 KB of memory every time it is called Message-ID: <200606180020.k5I0KMGC026142@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/98975; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: Matt <freebsdbugs@fjarlq.com> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, Ncurses Mailing List <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>, screen-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: gnu/98975: ncurses: tgetent leaks nearly 10 KB of memory every time it is called Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:14:59 -0400 (EDT) On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Matt wrote: > FreeBSD bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=98975 > > Dear FreeBSD, GNU ncurses, and GNU screen folks, > > I wrote earlier that the 10 KB per call memory leak in tgetent seems > to be fixed in ncurses version 5.5. That's still true, however I > have since learned that the leak is only fixed if tgetent is called > with the same terminal name each time. If the terminal name changes, > for example alternating tgetent calls for "vt100" and "sun", it > leaks memory, again about 10 KB per call. ok - something for next week (I did some fixes for the small leaks today). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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