Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2009-05-14 Thread Lars Doelle
Thomas, (thank you for maintaining ncurses for so long.) But doing that, some features of ncurses (like any curses implementation) would not work. In short the _nc_freeall, etc., are only useful for debugging, not for a production library. But this precisely is the point i do not

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2009-05-08 Thread Lars Doelle
Hi, i stumbled over this bug, too, and write to ask what the state of resolution is. The libncurses5-dbg is not distributed with --disable-leaks, at time of writing. If no semantic issues are know i would suggest not only to build the debugging library with --disable-leaks, but the production

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2009-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Lars Doelle wrote: Hi, i stumbled over this bug, too, and write to ask what the state of resolution is. The libncurses5-dbg is not distributed with --disable-leaks, at time of writing. --disable-leaks won't (by itself) free all leaks. For that, you'd need the non-public

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2008-08-02 Thread brian m. carlson
Package: libncurses5 Version: 5.6+20080713-1 Severity: normal According to valgrind, libncurses5 allocates approximately 118k that is never freed: ==31792== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 23 ==31792==at 0x4C200FC: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:397) ==31792==by

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2008-08-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, brian m. carlson wrote: Package: libncurses5 Version: 5.6+20080713-1 Severity: normal According to valgrind, libncurses5 allocates approximately 118k that is never freed: read the INSTALLATION file in sources, which describes the --disable-leaks option -- Thomas E.

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2008-08-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, brian m. carlson wrote: Package: libncurses5 Version: 5.6+20080713-1 Severity: normal According to valgrind, libncurses5 allocates approximately 118k that is never freed: from INSTALL: --disable-leaks For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2008-08-02 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 07:46:49PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, brian m. carlson wrote: Package: libncurses5 Version: 5.6+20080713-1 Severity: normal According to valgrind, libncurses5 allocates approximately 118k that is never freed: from INSTALL: --disable-leaks

Bug#493465: libncurses5: allocates memory that is never freed

2008-08-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, brian m. carlson wrote: I personally don't believe refresh is required to work after a delwin(stdscr), since Calling delwin deletes the named window, freeing all memory associated with it except that it doesn't free all the memory associated with it. It does free