Re: libtool-1.3.5 memory leak

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Chad,

On Monday 16 April 2001  4:29 pm, Chad Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:20:55AM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> > Please post a discription of the problem you are encountering,
> > why you believe there is a bug, and any relevant information.
> > That will make it easier to see where any errors lie.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> It's a memory leak.  Loading objects leaks a few words of memory.
> Over time, frequently loading leaks a _lot_ of memory.  The above
> patch plugs it.  (Searching the FreeRADIUS devel list of a few months
> ago would give the discussion about it, if you care that much.)
>
> This may be fixed in the devel line -- I don't know.  The code's a
> bit different.

By inspection, I can't find a code path through lt_dlopen which allocates 
memory to one of the four variables your patch fixes without freeing them 
later on.  Hopefully, this means that libtool-1.4 won't have this leak...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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