Re: Fixes footnote automatic numbering. (issue 4877041)

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On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:58 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Some more info.
> With the most recent patch set, when I comment out the footnote engraver and 
> the grob array callbacks for system, the segfault still happens.
> So it is likely coming from something I'm stashing in probs.  I'll try to 
> figure out what it is...
> 
> Cheers,
> MS

So I figured it out.

The two grob arrays were not declared in any interface, nor were they 
documented.  I fixed this and now there's no memory leak.

This may be a valuable piece of information for future research on memory leaks 
in LilyPond.  For whatever reason, when a property is looked up and/or passed 
around and does not belong to an interface nor is documented, LilyPond will 
compile clean but leak memory.

Of course, it'd be great if during the compilation stage some tool could do a 
scan for all get/set property/object calls in LilyPond (in .ly, .scm, and .cc 
documents) and crash the compilation if called properties lack interfaces 
and/or docstrings.  This seems like a separate (and less pressing) issue from 
the memleak, however.

Cheers,
MS