Re: memory leak in flex

[John Millaway]

--- Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Millaway <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> John> See
> John> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-flex/2002-June/000684.html
> 
> John> I guess it's time for us to finished the faq or the memory
> John> management api, or both!
> 
> For the records, I couldn't find a mean to free (without touching Flex
> internals) the SC stack.  I'm referring to 2.5.4a, I confess I have
> not tried the most recent betas.  Please flame me if the issue was
> addressed since.

You're correct. There is no documented, exposed api for dealing with this. The
plan is to override yylex_destroy(), which is already part of the reentrant
api. Calling this function from non-reentrant flex will wipe out all malloc'd
resources.



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