# Possible memory leak in 1.7.9p2?

Pavel Curtis (pavel@parc.xerox.com)
Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:09:56 PST

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    Quinn writes:
    >This is the same problem I mentioned months ago: while() loops are apparently
    > not freeing their variables before re-using them, so they effectively become
    > a hole into which one may dump megs and megs of useless data.

    I don't believe that this is the source of your problem, since I believe
    that while() loops don't do anything differently than normal variable
    assignment.  I will try to reproduce the leak using the measurement task,
    though.

            Pavel