Re: Memory leaks

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:32:19 Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >  There seems to be an awful lot of memory leaks in the
> >  gnome/Enlightenment combination. I just thought that if there is
> >  a port of the code to an OS on which Purify or a similar memory
> >  tracker is available (and someone has access to a copy), it might
> >  be worth running it through and posting the results to the developers
> >  mail group.
> 
> Do you have any reports in particular?  We are very interested in
> solving all memory leak issues.
> 
> Unfortunately, only very few developers have access to Purify-like tools.

I don't really know exactly where this is happening, but I have seen many
things that look like memory leaks when using the pixmap theme "E-Mac" (and other
pixmap themes).  For example, I still end up with crashes if I open up a delete
dialog with midnight commander twice.  This is with VERY recent CVS snapshots.

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