bug#54194: Memory Leak on Fedora Machine

2022-02-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2/27/22 21:34, Mahyar Mirrashed wrote: I accidentally profiled `grep` and noticed that there was over 110KB of memory leakage. There's a good possibility that it's not a true memory leakage. grep doesn't bother freeing storage just before it exits, merely to pacify memory checkers, as it's

bug#54194: Memory Leak on Fedora Machine

2022-02-28 Thread Mahyar Mirrashed
Hi there, I was implementing a simplistic shell script parser for fun in C. When profiling with valgrind with --trace-children=yes, I accidentally profiled `grep` and noticed that there was over 110KB of memory leakage. I am running grep v3.6 which is the most recent according to `dnf` on Fedora