dpb@deepthot.UUCP (Don Bennett 433-3311, 408) (09/18/89)
> I am involved in the development of a mid-sized Motif application, > and we are running into a lot of non-deterministic crashes that > smack of memory management errors. We *think* we have covered all > the bases in our programme, and have started to look for other > causes. > > Is anyone else seeing problems like this in Motif 1.0? Even > remotely similar? There are three memory leaks in Motif 1.0 that I know of, one of which is pretty tricky. Two places in the Xt intrinsics pass a list to a function that wants a pointer to the list, the other involves the modifyVerify callback of the Text widget. (The first two I found by a "benign type mismatch" in Saber-C). I don't think any serious work can be done with Motif-1.0 without fixing these problems. I plan to find out what mechanisms exist within the OSF for redistribution of fixes. We went through a lot of trouble to find the 3rd leak. (or, to have someone find it for us as it turned out). Don Bennett (408)433-3311 dpb@frame.com Frame Technology (of course, my opinions are my own.)