Re: INFO - memory leaks

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 08/13/97


On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Tom Dailey wrote:

>couldn't get past the loading of the text files (help files etc..) because
>of a memory leak in utils.c.  I can't imagine what's going to happen when

Um, I'm betting your "memory leak" is str_dup().

>I actually have people playing the game, killing mobs, picking up objects,
>etc..  I'll post any and all errors I come across (I'm at work right now

It'll barf on add_follower() too.

Both functions do a CREATE() and then return without freeing, hence the
apparent memory leak.

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