From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Takafumi Arakaki Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexical-let cause memory leaks? Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:34:53 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328027713 16637 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2012 16:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, zxnotdead@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 17:35:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsGfj-0003v1-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:35:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsGfi-0005TQ-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsGfb-0005Qx-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsGfX-00064v-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:59047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsGfW-00064p-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: by eekc13 with SMTP id c13so51308eek.0 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=SQ/IDi2oHuR8xtcfD+YUYIHamOeO2TLwaZfodD4f1z0=; b=wsqrWTb2+7reZk3WnTHD4GWjeryXKeoIQ0E+Z8uIo2jLFEdn7y4PkMv0dEMTpbWzbC hjCST3L8RZ8p9LisCjYsrvbAlu87rv2c9wTEnmZ+YJ4JzsDgrQ/cNOSsU+dhMjUnfWCS mCT4b7CM4yBDyfP7Jy5kADqjbXmWEUqWBWm9U= Original-Received: by 10.14.17.210 with SMTP id j58mr1271103eej.77.1328027693371; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.29.16 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.83.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148070 Archived-At: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9062580/when-does-emacs-lisps-lexical-let-leak-memory > > So... Is it true, that "variables bound with lexical-let are never > > released, even if they are never used"? > > Not that I know. Of course, this code is not bug-free, but I don't know > of any concrete case that bumps into such a bug. Hi, I'm the one who wrote the stackoverflow question. Good to know that there is no known leak. Thank you. Takafumi