On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:34:42 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: [memory leak]
>Humor me. > >When did this become a normal term for memory that was allocated and not >freed? It's Yet Another UNIXism (YAU?). >Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but everywhere I've been (including IBM) it >was a storage creep, or storage corruption. But in almost all cases, it >was because of some poor programming practice. It generally *is* because of some poor programming practice, or just plain logic error. It doesn't generally suggest anything wrong with anything other than the offending application program. >So did this term come from DEC? I don't recall this term being used in >the Univac shops I worked in, or the Honeywell, Varian, or Burroughs >shops. > >No, don't recall this being used at WANG, or the S/3x shops where I did >development. > >I think I first heard this term about 1995. I think I also first heard it in the early 90s, when I started working with UNIX and C programmers. In that C is a high level assembler for the PDP-11, it might be fair to say it came from DEC. In the VM world we used to call it a core cancer. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
