[GRASS5] s.out.ascii memory leak

[H Bowman]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:05:41 +0100
"Glynn Clements" <glynn.clements at virgin.net> wrote:

> > while we're at it, s.out.ascii's memory use is pretty terrible, and
> > grows out of control as well. The program is only a few lines long, so
> > maybe someone who knows the libraries better than I could spot it.
>
> -	      fprintf (stdout,"%s\n", G_site_format (site, fs, strip));
> +	    {
> +	      char *str = G_site_format (site, fs, strip);
> +	      fprintf (stdout,"%s\n", str);
> +	      G_free(str);
> +	    }



Yes, that patch works great. I can now output more than 8mb worth of points file.

Memory usage is now like 780kb and steady instead of 1gb and growing...


thanks,
Hamish