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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