From: David Ross <dross@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T12:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] Memory leak in ruby_1_8

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>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);
>     }
>
>
>  
>
bada boom! The patch works fine. Thank you Matz, now I can continue 
knowing I'm using the most stable. I have people who I wrote/and 
creating applications. Now I can get back to work.

David Ross
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