Re: Could --disable-leaks be made a runtime switch?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> On 11/02/2008, Steve Litt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > nCurses can be made to work right with Valgrind during compile
> > by ./configure --disable-leaks. Trouble is, I have to have two different
> > nCurseses.
> >
> > Would it be difficult to have make the --disable-leaks decision at runtime
> > rather than at compile time? That way I could use just one nCurses --
> > presumably the one that my distro uses to make all their tools.
>
> Isn't there a function you can call at the end of your program that
> does the same thing as --disable-leaks?  I seem to remember using such
> a thing in the past.

There are a few functions that can be called to free up the "permanent"
memory, but that's part of the --disable-leaks feature.

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