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Possibly Memory Leak Bug - yypstate_delete


From: Brandon Lucia
Subject: Possibly Memory Leak Bug - yypstate_delete
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:24:05 -0700

Hi all, sorry for two posts

I did a bit more investigation into this problem.

It seems that this problem loses memory when it relocates the stack, but I'm
still not sure exactly why or how.
Using a YYINITDEPTH value of 1, in my little test case causes a certain
number of bytes to be leaked after yypstate_delete finishes.
Using a YYINITDEPTH value of 2, in my little test case causes a certain
smaller number of bytes to be leaked.  This leads me to suspect (but not by
any means to be sure) that the bytes lost are either the bytes initially
allocated, and that they are not properly relocated with the newly allocated
stack bytes, or alternatively that the bytes lost are the new ones, and that
for some reason, when yyps gets deleted, it leaves behind some of its
freshly allocated memory.  Actually either way it is sliced, malloc gets
called, but free never does, beside the call to free the top level yyps
pointer, so I see this as a point at least to be further evaluated.

If anyone knows what's going on with this, I'd appreciate it, I feel like
I'm hitting a wall with regards to my understanding of the architecture of
bison and its generated code.


Thanks
-Brandon


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