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Re: Memory leak Why ??

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:00
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"Darrell Gallion, D260" <dgallion@cldx.com> writes:
>With gcc version 2.6.3 this will leak memory.
>Any thoughts ?
>
>#include <strstream.h>
>
>void main(void) { 
> for(;;) {
>	strstream str;	
> }
>}

This was a libg++ bug (in the code for the strstream class).  The program
does not leak memory under gcc 2.7.2 and libg++ 2.7.1 (I just checked
with purify, though I changed the for loop to step from 1 to 10 instead
of forever.

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Subject: Re: Memory leak Why ??
Date: 1996/03/15
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