From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Sep 28 11:38:50 1999
Subject: eval leaking memory?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Perry Moerland <perry at idiap dot ch>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, perry@pollux.idiap.ch
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:38:46 -0500 (CDT)

On 28-Sep-1999, Perry Moerland <perry at idiap dot ch> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.14 configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.7
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| Hello,
| 
| in my set-up eval is leaking memory: when iterating over very
| simple eval statements memory size keeps increasing ...
| A very simple example:
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
|  for i=1:10000000, eval('2;');  end

I'm unable to reproduce this problem using Octave 2.0.14 on an
Alpha running Digital Unix 4.0.  For me, running this loop does not
cause Octave's memory usage to grow.

jwe



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