Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/16/10:58:19
On 16 Mar 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> Anyways, it sounds as if system() has a slow memory leak. It possibly
> allocates DOS memory and forgets to free it. Unfortunately, only DJ or
> Eli, or else some wizard with system() source can fix it.
The sources are freely available to everybody (in v2/djlsr201.zip), so
you don't need to be a wizard to hunt such bugs down.
However, in this case, I think there's nothing to fix, since `system'
doesn't allocate any DOS memory. And on MSDOS I have never seen any such
problems, although I have run Make on large distributions where it calls
`system' much more than 50 times. It might be something specific to the
Windows 95 DPMI host (it is known to leak selectors, so might as well leak
DOS memory).
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