Re: panel now frees user data!

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From: Bill Janssen
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 21:53

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Excerpts from mail: 21-Feb-90 Re: panel now frees user data!
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> I complained about this several times, but the reply was the panel had
> not been documented one way or the other.  I agree it is a major
> inconvenience, as I usually store marks in panels, and now I have to
> malloc 4 bytes and store a pointer to the mark.  It is ABSOLUTELY wrong
> to free something you did not malloc in the first place.

> Charles Hayden  cch@mtgzx.att.com

I just copied the code to a very similar inset called jpanel, that
doesn't free the rock.  I'm tempted just to fix the release code, but
I'm wondering if messages or help depend on the `feature' to prevent
memory leaks.

Bill

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