Re: Valgrind reports possibly lost memory

[Steve Litt]

Thomas Dickey said on Mon, 30 May 2022 06:01:04 -0400

>On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:22:21AM +0200, TheJackiMonster wrote:

>> 
>> Surprisingly running vim on my system which should use the same
>> ncurses doesn't report any leakage at all.  
>
>vim uses the termcap interface (no initscr/endwin).

Is there documentation anywhere telling how to use the termcap
interface and what its benefits and problems are?

>
>Last year, there was some discussion about leaks in that,
>after which perhaps Bram took my advice to use del_curterm().

Is there documentation of how to use del_curterm in order to remove
memory leak artifacts from ncurses?

Thanks,

SteveT

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