Re: Memory leak in bison 1.35

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:34, Ignasi Villagrasa wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I'm using bison version 1.35 that comes with cygwin package for
>> Windows enviroments.
>> 
>> I detect a memory leak in generated C code. Function yyparse loses
>> periodically 4K chunks memory.
>> 
>> Because of the unclear generated code, I'd like to know if there's
>> a known solution for this problem before getting into the source
>> code.

Tim> Are you also using flex?  At startup, flex allocates a buffer
Tim> that is never freed; it's not really a memory leak (flex merely
Tim> has no point at which it can free the buffer normally, so it
Tim> relies on the normal 'at end' cleanup), but will be reported as
Tim> such by many memory checkers.  It allocates chunks of 16k tho,
Tim> not 4k.

Hm, are you sure it is really yyparse per se which is guilty, and not
the user actions themselves?