On 29-Jan-2004, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Shouldn't we be using the latest version, if possible?
| >
| > I do remember the fftw malloc problem from some earlier attempt to use
| > fftw. If it is possible to avoid that, then we probably should. I
|
| It may or may not be related to http://fftw.org/faq/section3.html#leaks
|
| <<<<
| Question 3.15. FFTW seems to have a memory leak.
| After you create a plan, FFTW caches the information required to quickly
| recreate the plan. (See Q3.8 `Can I save FFTW's plans?') It also maintains
| a small amount of other persistent memory. You can deallocate all of FFTW's
| internally allocated memory, if you wish, by calling fftw_cleanup(), as
| documented in the manual.
| >>>>
I was thinking there was someone who reported a bug related to the
16-byte alignment requirement and who told me that I should switch to
using fftw_malloc for all of Octave, but I said that wasn't possible.
jwe