fixing memory leaks before the pretest (was: Update on the Emacs release schedule?)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:10:38 +0800 Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote: 

CY> As for the code, there are still a number of issues that need more
CY> attention, most prominently the mysterious memory leak(s) that may or
CY> may not involve Gnus and/or GnuTLS and/or Mac OS X.

I am seeing memory growth on GNU/Linux with Gnus and GnuTLS that I don't
see otherwise without Gnus, so it's faintly possible GnuTLS is not the
determining factor.  I have gone over the gnutls.c code and don't see
where the GnuTLS glue could be leaking.  If it is, I'll need a tool like
Valgrind to help me, and last time I tried that, the reports were not
helpful to me (too much data, not enough leading back to GnuTLS).  I
spent 2 days on this last week and meant to bring it up this week,
actually (the discussion about GnuTLS on W32 sort of distracted me :)

Maybe someone who actually knows how to use Valgrind could help me or
try to find the leaks themselves?

Ted