Re: Possible memory leak

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Steven Smith wrote:
> There seems to be a small memory leak in _nc_read_entry_source in
> version 5.4 of ncurses.
> 
> In particular, _nc_read_entry_source calls _nc_parse_entry, which in
> turn calls _nc_init_entry, but the memory allocated there doesn't
> appear to get freed anywhere.  enqueue() copies the structure, rather
> than making a new reference to it.
> 
> I attach a patch which appears to fix the problem, but it's rather
> ugly.

I agree with that.  Actually I see that I did something like that in mid-April.
It was in the 20040417 patch, which is incorporated in the 20040424 rollup
patch, e.g.,

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.4/patch-5.4-20040424.sh

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