Re: memory leak in flex

[John Millaway]

> i have built a very simple scanner with flex, and it works just fine!
> the only problem is that it produces 16k+40 bytes of memory leaks that
> are allocated in yy_create_buffer. i can trace the program and it never
> calls the corresponding yy_delete_buffer on yy_current_buffer. if i
> modify the resulting code to do so in the EOB_ACT_END_OF_FILE,
> everything works fine. what am i doing wrong? how can i make flex
> release the buffer?

See http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-flex/2002-June/000684.html

I guess it's time for us to finished the faq or the memory management api, or
both!


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