xfree leaking memory?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Chris,

Thanks for clearing that up.  That's a lot better than what you had thought.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
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>>>It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window 
>>>(such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that 
>>>window is destroyed.  This indicates one of a few things to me:
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>>>1) We are not freeing our window privates (directly or indirectly). 
>>>This seems plausible, but I don't think our window privates are even 1 
>>>kilobyte.
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>>I thought I should point out that Cygwin doesn't currently return
>>deallocated memory to the windows pool.  So, the heap only gets larger.
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>I thought I should point out that, while I wrote the function in
>question, the above statement was completely wrong.  I was investigating
>sbrk() operation for an unrelated matter and noticed that it was
>dutifully releasing unused memory back to the system.
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>I don't know why I thought things behaved any differently than this but
>I thought I should correct any misperceptions that I caused.
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>cgf
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