From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Tue Jul 15 14:21:41 2008
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:21:41 +0200
Subject: [Rd] memory leak in readline code
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>>>>> "BD" == Bill Dunlap <bill at insightful.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:17:03 -0700 (PDT) writes:

    BD> Several folks have previously written that valgrind
    BD> notices a memory leak in R's readline code.  It looks
    BD> like it leaks a copy of every input line.

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Thanks a lot, Bill.

As typically, you are perfectly right, AFAICS,
and I have committed the patch.

Best regards,
Martin



[Rd] memory leak in readline code
Martin Maechler