On Wednesday 29 August 2007, mabshoff wrote:
> On Aug 29, 1:19 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> dortmund.de> wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 9:50 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > William did suggest a fix but he either didn't code it up and merge it
> > or it somehow got lost. We should open an individual ticket for that
> > one because it just bleeds RAM like a stuck pig.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Michael
>
> Okay, I have opened ticket #511 and created a patch from William's
> suggestion:
>
> Without the patch:
>
> ==22784== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==22784==    definitely lost: 794,838 bytes in 65,475 blocks.
> ==22784==      possibly lost: 350,158 bytes in 953 blocks.
> ==22784==    still reachable: 137,588,639 bytes in 19,728 blocks.
> ==22784==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>
> With the patch:
>
> ==22993== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==22993==    definitely lost: 3,103 bytes in 49 blocks.
> ==22993==      possibly lost: 349,334 bytes in 931 blocks.
> ==22993==    still reachable: 137,589,847 bytes in 19,621 blocks.
> ==22993==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>
> All the details and a link to the patch are in ticket #511.
>
> Ifti, it would be great if you could verify that the result is still
> correct. I am about to rerun the doctests, but I am not sure what will
> turn up because according to Wiliam there were failling doctests
> before. On top of that we can also start looking into additional
> problems with that particular computation if you are interested.

Your patch seems 'free' memory allocated with 'new'. So either we 
should 'm/calloc' the buffer or 'delete' it.

Martin


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