At 12:00am -0800 01-03-12, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: How to deal with OS 3.50 memory leak...
>From: DIAMOND JEFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:00:07 -0500
>X-Message-Number: 58
>
>Unfortunately, I invested in the philosophy of using features. My
>program uses about 100 KB of feature memory (not all in one chunk) as
>work space for my application. And being a kind app, it frees and
>reallocs this memory when yuo switch in and out of it.
>
>Now, on OS 3.5.0 (on the Palm IIIc), freeing a feature memory causes a
>leak, and so running my program, I see the available ram leak away 100K
>a tap - certainly not acceptable.
The 3.5 memory leak bug only happens when you do a soft reset -
orphaned memory chunks (such as those used by features) don't get
auto-freed. So the memory leak you're describing above sounds like a
different problem.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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