>Summary: In OS 3.5, after a reset, feature memory and chunks allocated with
>DmNewHandle are *not* freed. In previous versions of the OS, these were
>freed.
Um, thanks for yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, Neil :-)
This is a bug that engineering knows about, the same one that Ken was
mentioning in the "PalmOS 3.5 memory leak surviving a reset" thread, and
I'm told that a patch is already in the works.
As for the comment/question from Paul Dugas:
>So, an errant program (read "virus") might allocate and not
>free all the storage on the device requiring the user to
>hard-reset, potentially loosing data?
Well, any application could simply allocate records in a database
endlessly, which would have the same effect. Ditto for any program running
on your pc... so yes it is a bug but the sky isn't falling on our heads.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
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