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Re: Memleaks?
At 08:45 30.10.2006 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:40:56PM +0100, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
>> I admit that I used not a state-of-the-art gdb, but I don't think that
>> this was changed recently. I'd be pleased if you can correct me.
>>
>> GNU gdb 6.2.50_2004-10-14-cvs
>
>This is two years old; I can't really speculate on what has changed
>since then. It may be simple memory leaks, or it may be something more
>complex.
Actually 6.5 behaves the same as 6.2.5. The difference was not the
version but the calling. When started with "gdb --readnow" every file
read will leave some memory behind and use more and more. So it
seems that the full symbols are not cleaned up as well as the partial
symbols.
bye Fabi