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Re: Anybody have fixes for memory leaks in Athena Text Widgets?

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From: Donna Converse
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 18:03
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> I remember seeing a mention in this group, sometime last year, about
> fixes for memory leaks in the Athena text widgets.  Does anybody have a
> copy of these?  Will the fixes be in R5?  I need to plug the holes!

I don't know of a public patch for leaks in the Athena Text widget.
In R5, the Text widget does not leak memory.  Some of the leaks are
relatively easy to find -- look for calls to XtMalloc and friends
within the widget code, and look for corresponding calls to free in
the destroy method.


Donna Converse
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