Re: lynx-dev dev17 clue?

[dickey]

> 24-Feb-99 05:46 address@hidden wrote: 
> >> Maybe that is what I have been calling "hanging" -- 
> >> freeing its memory. 
> >> 
> >> (Question: why free the memory at all?  Won't the OS 
> >> do it for you -- after all, you are exiting.  ??) 
>  
> > yes.  but to check memory leaks, you have to free all of the pieces and 
> > then see what's left. 
>  
> Well, and if we are not interest in --enable-find-leaks 
> could we ommit these expesive free'ing operations on exit 
> or we get roughly the same timing from OS functions? 

--enable-find-leaks is not enabled by default (someone was guessing that
  David was using a copy of Lynx which was enabled, for testing).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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