On Monday 03 October 2005 13:57, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 3 Oct 2005, at 15:35, Hans Aberg wrote:
> > This leak is due to the allocation of a C-string for error
> > messages. The leak can be fixed by using std::string instead (which
> > I did in the skeleton file I am using).
> >
> > Bison and Flex are designed to just run as a program in one go, in
> > which case leaks will be recovered when the program terminates. In
> > such a use, they are probably not significant enough to be fixed, I
> > think, even though it would be more pleasing.
>
> A lapse, mixing up Bison & Flex with the parsers/lexers they
> generate: It might be important to fix this then, if the parser is
> invoked many times in a program running for an extended time.
In my case, where the parser/scanner is in an application that namely run for
long times, such a fix would of course be appreciated.
Cheers,
Frans
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