Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:32:57 08/05/99
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On August 05, 1999 at 19:23:16, Gerrit Reubold wrote: >Hi Eugene, hi all, > >I have successfully included Nalimov's tablebases in my program, they are >working great, thanks again for supplying them. > >However, I have a small problem with my implementation of Nalimov's probing >code, it works fine, but I get memory leaks when exiting the program. The memory >was allocated by "IInitializeTb(cPath)", is there a complementary function which >I forgot to call on exit? I am using MSVC 6.0, if it helps, I can mail or post >(parts of) the debug output. >This is not a big problem, because it happens when exiting the program, but it >would be nice to exit "clean". > >Has somebody the same problem? Is there a remedy? > >Thanks in advance, >Gerrit When a program exit()'s, there is _no_ requirement that memory that was obtained via "malloc()" should be released. The operating system should be able to clean up after a program exits. The only exceptions are memory segments that are 'permanent' like those created via shmget(). The bug isn't in Eugene's code nor in yours... The system you are running has some sort of memory leak bug that needs a fix... and there probably is one already as this would be a _serious_ problem...
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