Re: [bug-gawk] Memory leak

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi Stéphane,

You're welcome. To be fair, Arnold and I collaborated on the patch. Thank you
for finding the bug and reporting it; it was a tricky one.

Best,
Andy

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:33:42PM +0000, Stephane Delsert wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> That's great. I made a couple of test,  the memory used by gawk doesn't 
> exceed a couple of Kb even for huge file and results are perfect. 
> This bug was tricky and I'm impressed by your reactivity. 
> 
> Thanks so much for your help,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stéphane.
> 
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> From: Andrew J. Schorr [mailto:address@hidden 
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> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Memory leak
> 
> Hi Stephane,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:04:01PM +0000, Stephane Delsert wrote:
> > I added your lines in the code and reran the tests with 1MM and 2MM. I've 
> > always a memory leak : 1.5 Gb for 84MM of records processed . 
> 
> If you apply the attached patch to pristine gawk-4.1.4 sources, does it fix 
> your memory leak?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
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