[fpc-pascal]Memory Usage

[James Mills]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:49:35AM +0200, Peter Vreman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:00:22AM +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >>
> >> On maandag, mei 12, 2003, at 11:00 Europe/Brussels, James Mills wrote:
> >>
> >> >>- memory leaks.  Proceed as Peter already explained.
> >> >But a 100Mb odd memory leak ? How is this possible, my program only has
> >> >a handlefull of getMem and reAllocMem calls throughout it.
> >>
> >> That could explain it, reallocmem() could in certain cases cause this
> >> behaviour in 1.0.6 and earlier. Have you already tried a 1.0.7
> >> snapshot? It should be fixed.
> >
> > Ooooh, darnnit well that might explain a few things. I've never used
> > snapshots or installed FPC from the source. I use Debian, did use 1.0.4
> > then upgraded to SID and it had 1.0.6 .
> >
> > When do you expect to upload a newer version into the Debian
> > repositories ? If it's a long way down the track I'll remove 1.0.6 and
> > install the latest snapshot instead.
> 
> We can't upload a release to debian. The debian maintainer is responsable
> for that. See the Changelog.debian.gz for his email. I tried to contact
> him a few months ago but got no reply :(

Wasn't sure how it worked really. I'll contact him. I tried installing
from the sources once, but failed. Is it hard to do so, I assume it has
instructions ? And do you have to have FPC in order to compile from the
source ?

cheers
James

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