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From: lynnes@ALEX.CSS.GOV (Christopher Lynnes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Memory Leaks
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Date: 24 Apr 91 13:30:39 GMT
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>We have a large application program running X and Motif that
>appears to have consistent 'memory leaks' under certain conditions.
>An example of a condition is the building of a popup-shell and 
>several associated child widgets, and immediately popping it
>down with a 'done' button which invokes XtDestroyWidget() on the
>popup.  

People have reported memory leak problems with shell creation/destruction, 
though most of these complaints seemed to be for the X11/R3-Motif 1.0
combination. One way to remedy that is to create a single popup, and
manage and unmanage it (changing its resources/children appropriately),
which also saves time.

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