Re: Memory leak since patch 20211106

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since 20211106 we face a memory leak in the curses based tree of our
> installer[1].
> 
>  20211106
>         + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
>         + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
>           rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
>           its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
>         + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
>           Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
> 
> as the last change removes a memory-leak, I guess it is within the new
> pad distinction:

I suppose so (it seemed okay for the cases that I had available).

I'll see if I can reduce this to something that I can test.
 
>  nm -D /usr/lib64/yui/libyui-ncurses.so.15 | grep pad
>                  U keypad
>                  U newpad

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