[Coco] Memory leak in OS-9 Level Two

Mannequin* mannslists at invigorated.org
Sun Aug 15 18:20:44 EDT 2004


On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:54:09 -0500
"Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:


> Messages of this nature are usually posted to the NitrOS-9 list, but I

> wanted to post this to the CoCo list in the hopes that someone could

> verify this.

>

> While working on some bugs in NitrOS-9 cc3io today, I noticed a memory

> leak that appears to go back to the OS-9 Level Two package. Here's how

> to duplicate it:


...


> I don't recall anyone ever mentioning this particular problem. Can

> someone verify that this is happening on their system?

>

> Boisy


Hi Boisy.

I booted up my Coco 3 with OS-9 and did exactly what you had down. The last
"mfree" reports only 424k available.

I remember when I used to use the Coco on a normal basis, I had always thought I
was losing memory when I was playing around with windows... I guess I wasn't
too far off.

-M.



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