Re: memory leak in yacc

The moderator writes:
> [I sometimes write my own wrapper for malloc that chains together all of
> the memory allocated using it, so then I can free it all at a point where I
> know that none of it's in use any more. -John]


This certainly seems the best method to me. If yacc finds a syntax error,
it's likely to leave you with an incomplete tree of malloc'd areas, and
no way of freeing them. There are probably ways, but I just found it
simpler to free everything allocated at once.


steve
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