Re: Memory leaks

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Uday S Reddy <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have begun to wonder if obarray gets freed after buffer-local-var stops
>> pointing to it, say through another setq to buffer-local-var.
>
> Obarrays are ordinary vectors, that get garbage collected like any other
> object.

Unfortunately, symbols are daisy-chained from their obarray bucket, so
even unused symbols can't be collected until all their successors in the
hidden hash bucket chain have become unused as well.

-- 
David Kastrup