Re: space leak from `values'

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Only explicit evaluation by the user adds an element to `values'.

Yes, but it can keep arbitrary amounts of data live, and it's a fairly
obscure feature (not documented in the user manual).

> Do people experience a problem with its getting long?

I don't know generally, and it's difficult to tell how much garbage it
keeps around indirectly.  It can hold quite a lot from repeated
evaluations, e.g. from many trips round a loop in the debugger.