Re: Memory leaks

[Uday S Reddy]

On 3/7/2011 8:33 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

I didn't think the vectors themselves would be in trouble, but rather 
what is behind the vectors: the buckets, the symbols and so on.  Even 
after the vectors are gone, there could be references to the symbols in 
other places, could there not?  So, it is not entirely clear when all 
that memory could be collected?

Cheers,
Uday