Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-15 Thread Jon Grant
Hi there, Paul Smith wrote on 14/10/07 22:17: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 18:33 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: Do they get free'd up when make exits? No. It's quite difficult to do this since the variables are static and so are only visible within that function. In order to free them we'd have to add th

Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:12 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: > the OS should cover that, but in some case I wonder if there may be a > leak left. Would the DOS version for instance result in lost memory the > OS cannot reallocate? (I'm not a DOS expert to answer that) I would be surprised, since DOS is so

Re: possible memory leak in make 3.81

2007-10-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:12:37 +0100 > From: Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > Paul Smith wrote on 14/10/07 22:17: > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 18:33 +0100, Jon Grant wrote: > >> Do they get free'd up when make exits? > > > > No. It's quite difficult to do this since the v

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
It looks like this discussion may have been premature, perhaps by as little as a few weeks or so, based on the fact that Savannah has Subversion support in beta right now and that there seems to be a lot of action around GIT support on Windows that is being published either now or very shortly. So

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Howard Chu
Paul Smith wrote: It looks like this discussion may have been premature, perhaps by as little as a few weeks or so, based on the fact that Savannah has Subversion support in beta right now and that there seems to be a lot of action around GIT support on Windows that is being published either now

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense > in this discussion. "Make" is inherently a POSIX command line tool. > Anybody using it on Windows needs a POSIX environment already anyway. That is definitely not true. T

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:36:53 -0700 > From: Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense in this > discussion. Believe me, it does make sense to some. In a nutshell, if you use Cygwin or MSY

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:11:19PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: >> IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense >> in this discussion. "Make" is inherently a POSIX command line tool. >> Anybody using it on Windows needs a POS