Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!ulysses!ucbvax!parc.xerox.com!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: panel now frees user data! Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 21:53:46 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Excerpts from mail: 21-Feb-90 Re: panel now frees user data! cch@mtgzx.att.com (443+0) > I complained about this several times, but the reply was the panel had > not been documented one way or the other. I agree it is a major > inconvenience, as I usually store marks in panels, and now I have to > malloc 4 bytes and store a pointer to the mark. It is ABSOLUTELY wrong > to free something you did not malloc in the first place. > Charles Hayden cch@mtgzx.att.com I just copied the code to a very similar inset called jpanel, that doesn't free the rock. I'm tempted just to fix the release code, but I'm wondering if messages or help depend on the `feature' to prevent memory leaks. Bill