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Re: ncurses seems to be leaking memory?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: ncurses seems to be leaking memory? |
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Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:49:45 -0400 |
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10:58PM +1000, Timothy Allen wrote:
> On 11/6/20 21:32, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > But this was with the ncurses supplied by the distro
> > (ncurses-6.1-1ubuntu1.1). I then tried with ncurses-6.2,
> > patch 20200418, which I had still installed in /usr/local.
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> Was that version built with the --disable-leaks flag?
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> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#config_leaks
Even if it was, it only works as designed if the "permanent" leaks
are freed at the end of execution:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_memleaks.3x.html
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