On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:50:08 -0600, Joe Denison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having an issue with REXX EXECs (interpreted, not compiled) that seem to
>*not* free storage after they terminate. Is this a known issue? Has anyone
>else experienced this?
>
>(my apologies for the long post -- but wanted to provide some details to
>reduce some questions that may be asked)
>
>A simple example to demonstrate the issue:
>
>/* REXX EXEC */
>DO i=1 to 100000
>bb.i=COPIES("P",1000)
>END
>EXIT
>
>While running this, the "used" storage increases as each of the stem variables
>gets populated with a string of 1000 "P" characters. But when the REXX
>program terminates, the storage (GETMAIN'd) during this process does not get
>freed.
Can you provide more details of how you're running that exec? If run via
the exec command then the normal task termination should clean up all the
storage.
--
Walt
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