From: Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/03/28
Date: 1995-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3l93dg$o8v@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3kvccb$18ru@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
Robert I. Eachus <EACHUS.95Mar22193719@spectre.mitre.org> writes:
> In article <EACHUS.95Mar22193719@spectre.mitre.org>,
> eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>
> It sounds as if the case you are talking about involves a bounded amount
> of storage allocated ONCE at the beginning of the program. As long as it
> does not cause memory to gradually become exhausted as execution
> continues, I don't call that a leak either.
>
.unless your package ends up running on a platform without virtual memory.
Many of the smaller O.S.'s don't have the ability to recover this memory when
a program terminates. If there is any chance your code might be re-used on
such a platform, please do not code this way! At least deallocate this memory
upon program termination (and don't forget those exception handlers).
T.E.D. (structured programming bigot)
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 9:06 Does memory leak? Duncan Sands
1995-03-22 12:04 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-23 0:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 13:54 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-23 16:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-24 21:08 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison [this message]
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1995-03-23 2:08 ` T. Owen O'Malley
1995-03-24 11:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-27 14:01 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-04-04 0:00 ` John Baker
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Sverre Brubaek
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 22:38 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-24 1:57 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-24 17:30 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-26 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-27 15:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-27 14:35 ` Kennel
1995-03-24 12:29 ` Mike Meier
1995-03-24 10:46 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-24 15:44 ` David Weller
1995-03-25 1:55 ` kkrieser
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1995-03-27 9:36 Duncan Sands
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