Re: Zero Rreferences (was:Stupid Question)

2003-12-01 Thread drieux
On Nov 30, 2003, at 11:25 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: drieux wrote: [..] Pathological cases can arise within any system. yes, but they keep allowing the primates to code... 8-) [..] I haven't really searched on the problem, because it hasn't arisen. Until this morning, when I cooked up that memory

Re: Zero Rreferences (was:Stupid Question)

2003-12-01 Thread R. Joseph Newton
drieux wrote: > On Nov 30, 2003, at 2:39 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > > Does the difference between the two memory readings represent a memory > leak? > > > > I think that is unlikely. If it were a true memory leak, it would have > taken a much geater toll. More like the OS simply lets > th

Re: Zero Rreferences (was:Stupid Question)

2003-11-30 Thread drieux
On Nov 30, 2003, at 2:39 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: Does the difference between the two memory readings represent a memory leak? I think that is unlikely. If it were a true memory leak, it would have t aken a much geater toll. More like the OS simply lets the program keep memory that it s

Re: Zero Rreferences (was:Stupid Question)

2003-11-30 Thread R. Joseph Newton
drieux wrote: > > Malloc from the Top > Free From the Bottom > > and whip out some sort of 'initializer' function that > will if the thingiePoo is non-Null start out by calling > the tree_traverser() that will decend the complex data > structure making sure that the leaf nodes can

Re: Zero Rreferences (was:Stupid Question)

2003-11-30 Thread drieux
On Nov 29, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: [..] I joined this thread late, forgive me if this has been answered. Is there a module or a programmatic method to ensuring that there are no references left? [..] p0: If you want to review a thread on the beginner's mailing list, one w