From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Memory leak Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 13:26:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4830126D.5080804@swipnet.se> References: <87skwgg302.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87od74agfu.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211110046 5502 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2008 11:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 18 13:28:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jxh3X-0003Ea-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:28:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh2n-0006i5-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh2j-0006gS-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh2h-0006dD-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40734 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jxh2h-0006co-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.181]:52645) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jxh2h-0001uf-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 07:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0108137F8F; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E114537F1C; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA81D37E47; Sun, 18 May 2008 13:27:04 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87od74agfu.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97360 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow skrev: > Well, here's a dumb idea: has anyone tried running Emacs under valgrind? > I dimly recall that tool being remarkably useful for finding memory > leaks. Valgrind just craches when run on Emacs. Emacs memory handling is too much for valgrind. It is the undump think that it doesn't understand. Jan D.