[Patch 21.4] native cygwin xemacs-21.4.19 segfaults when requiring un-define

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Tue Aug 1 09:38:41 EDT 2006


 Ar an chéad lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > The main concern I have is that Aidan admits that the code hasn't been
 > audited for memory leaks, which is always a concern when moving from
 > alloca (which is effectively garbage-collected by the stack
 > discipline) to malloc.  OTOH, byte-compilation is a very rare event;
 > any leaks probably will not be noticable.
 > 
 > Probably running a full compile with XEmacs instrumented by valgrind
 > or similar would catch almost all problems.

Or breaking just after the xnew_array, doing a garbage-collect, and making
sure that the array is now garbage. Avoiding such objects being
garbage-collected is the point of GCPRO, after all. 

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