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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:39:33 +0100
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Anton Helm <tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at>
Subject: Re: flex never frees some buffers !?
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At 10:50 26.03.98 +0300, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Anton Helm wrote:
>
>> Anyone out there who knows why this memory is kept until program terminates ?
>> and how to get rid of the allocated memory during runtime ?
>
>I looked in the Flex manual, and there's a chapter there called
>"Multiple Buffers".  It documents a function `yy_delete_buffer' which
>is said to ``reclaim the storage associated with a buffer''.  Doesn't
>this do what you need?
>

The yy_delete_buffer works fine for additionally aquired buffers
(e.g. if you parse included files, like *.h in C) but NOT for the
initial buffer because you are still inside flex when you detect
an EOF and obviously must leave yylex() before freeing memory.

What I don't understand is, why doesn't flex itself free the memory ?

Tony





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