At 12:00am -0700 00-04-09, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: PalmOS 3.5 memory leak surviving a reset ?
>From: Ron Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:13:00 -0700
>X-Message-Number: 38
>
>When I reset POSE while running my multi-segment application under
>the PalmOS 3.5 non-debug ROMS, two 4 kbyte chunks with owner id #3 are
>left in the static heap. This does not seem to happen under PalmOS 3.1.
>
>For example, after every reset the Palm Debugger
> hd 1
>command shows 2 *additional* entries that look something like this:
>
> start MemHandle localID size size cnt own flags type index ...
> ...
> *000575FE 00020382 00020383 001000 001008 #1 #3 fM
> *00058606 0002038E 0002038F 001000 001008 #1 #3 fM
> ...
>
>Where could this serious 8 kbyte storage heap leak be coming from?
>I thought the OS was supposed to clean up after a soft reset.
>
>In the comp.sys.palmtops.pilot newsgroup, other applications have
>also been reported to have this problem under PalmOS 3.5.
It's a known bug, and will be fixed by an in-the-works patch.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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