Re: Problems freeing memory with Free

[randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:35:48 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol wrote:
> and use this in the same way as the integer in the testing program I put
> up on the web, then the program start apparently to leak memory if I
> delete X nodes and then add X nodes again. The size of the memory goes
> perhaps from:
> 
>    8Mb -> 8Mb (after freeing I don't see a reduction in memory size) ->
>    12Mb (some increase, but not as high as 16Mb) or something like this,
>    this does not happen if I use Bounded_String. The problem with
>    Bounded_String however is that the memory consumption is 27Mb, well
>    not in a real situation, but for my testing now :-)

Correction:
If I use Bounded_String then it doesn't matter if I delete the first or
the Last Nodes, the memory pool is the same size, but if I reread the
nodes that I deleted then the memory does not increase. If I delete
all the nodes, the whole memory chunck is released.  

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