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Subject: Re: Memory Leak in Motif 1.0 Dialog Widgets (Interactive port)
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:53:02 GMT
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Bruce Ong posted a program that has a memory leak.  It involved continually
re-Setting the items and itemCount of a Selectionbox.

First the good news; it doesn't seem to leak in 1.1.

Two changes you can make to the posted program.  First, there is still a leak in
XmStringCreateLtoR in 1.0.3.  The example program is helped by only creating the
string once at startup.

Second, the best thing you can do about this particular case is use the
XmListDeletePos and XmListAddItem calls, instead of updating the resources
directly (use XmSelectionBoxGetChild to find the list).

David Brooks
Systems Engineering
Open Software Foundation