Re: Could --disable-leaks be made a runtime switch?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> On 12/02/2008, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There are a few functions that can be called to free up the "permanent"
> > memory, but that's part of the --disable-leaks feature.
>
> If those functions are in the library even without --disable-leaks,

they're not...

> though, you could call them from your app on *any* ncurses binary
> distribution on any platform.  That would be handy... and I seem to
> remember having done it before :)

I recall seeing SuSE's package for ncurses had turned on the feature -
a while back.

> valgrind is getting to be an indispensable tool for C/C++ developers,
> so libraries that don't make it easy to cooperate with valgrind are
> kind of a pain.  (glibc and openssl are other examples.)


> Have fun,
>
> Avery

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