Re: Restarting Curses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> I've re-designed things to ensure that initscr() only gets called
> once, but I have hit another issue -
>
> repeated calls to endwin() seem to cause a memory leak (at least on my
> system).  Is this expected, and if so, what can I use instead to drop
> out of curses?

(n)curses allocates some memory "permanently".

Beyond that, endwin shouldn't leak - it's "once" (unless there's
some additional re-initialization).

ncurses can be built with extra functions to free this memory (see the 
INSTALL file discussion --disable-leaks).

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