From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T11:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] Memory leak in ruby_1_8

Hi,

In message "Re: [BUG] Memory leak in ruby_1_8"
    on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:24:15 +0900, David Ross <dross@code-exec.net> writes:

|I have a small memory leak. I tried using cvs to get ruby_1_8 right now. 
|Okay, there is no leak with 1.8.2 preview. Its in stable. I tried 
|running the attached scripts and ran test.sh just to make sure like I 
|always do and it started to leak. Please try searching for the leak 
|while I do as well..

Can you check the attached patch?


							matz.

--- eval.c	29 Oct 2004 01:03:59 -0000	1.616.2.63
+++ eval.c	29 Oct 2004 02:55:34 -0000
@@ -11387,9 +11387,4 @@ rb_thread_start_0(fn, arg, th)
 
-    for (block = saved_block; block;) {
-	struct BLOCK *tmp = block;
-
-	if (tmp->frame.argc > 0)
-	    free(tmp->frame.argv);
-	block = tmp->prev;
-	free((void*)tmp);
+    if (saved_block) {
+	blk_free(saved_block);
     }