[GRASS-dev] r.los on windows question

[Hamish]

Benjamin wrote:
> this is a problem with dirty memory allocation that never
> got fixed.
....
> If anyone wants to have a go at it: use Valgrind on Linux.
> It will tell you exactly where the bad allocations happen.

Markus has done that already; posted to the bug tracker:
  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/111


> From memory: the problem can be fixed by delaying the release of memory
> allocated at the start of each run through the main loop.

also if anyone is interested r.viewshed from wiki addons only needs some
cleanup and small bug fixes to have a LOS app which scales a lot better.


Hamish