On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:59 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:00 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | > 
> | > [...]
> | > 
> | > | > Parenthetically, I was wondering who is freeing those extensive
> | > | > regions of storage xmalloc/xcalloc()ed here and there?
> | > | 
> | > | 1. The people who write the code to do the xmalloc'ing.
> | > | 2. Every couple of months, people run gcc through valgrind with leak
> | > | checking on to make sure we arne't leaking the xmalloc'd memory.
> | > 
> | > If all memory is realized at the end of program, then obviously there
> | > is no leak, but that is not what I was looking for.
> | 
> | Then what are you looking for?
> 
> [ A useful answer ;-) ]
> 
> where the storage is returned/reused as soon as done, as opposed to
> waiting for the end of the compilation.

Uh, nobody waits for the end of compilation to free their xmalloc'd
things.

> 
> [...]
> 
> | >   Do you know whether the have the resulst publically
> | > available somewhere?
> | No, i don't think anyone takes the extra effort to try to set up a web
> | page.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Gaby

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