Re: [gtk-list] Memory leaks

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Daniel Skarda wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    few days ago I started work on improving my gimp plug-in called gag (at least
> I want to bring it up to date :). While playing with several gtk features I
> noticed big mem leaks (this leak is also presented in testgtk so I think it is
> not gag dependend and it should be mentioned on this list :) in idle callbacks.
> To try it just launch testgtk, raise up `test idle' dialog and press start
> button. Now you can watch testgtk from other console and you will se that
> testgtk is eating your memory....

thanx for the report, this is due to a bug in the handle_timouts and
handle_idles code from gtkmain.c and is fixed in cvs already.

we'll soon put out GTK+-1.0.1 with other bug-fixes as well.

>    After while in idle dialog gtk+-1.0.0 reduced amount of free memory by 0.5MB.
> 
> Dan
> 

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ciaoTJ