Re: How do I report a suspected bug to INFORMIX?

kpk@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kenneth.p.kretsch..jr) writes: You can probably consider it forwarded, but you could call tech support at 800-274-8184. I'll bet Jonathan Leffler will be right behind me in a reply; I think he was working on plugging memory leaks just recently. ============================================================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software Inc Senior Consultant Denver Colorado USA dennisp@informix.com Voice:303-850-0210 Fax:303-779-4025 >While investigating some memory leak bugs in my code, I noticed that >Purify was reporting suspected memory leaks in the INFORMIX libraries >I was using. FYI, here's an example: >Purify (mlk): 130048 total bytes lost, allocated from: > malloc [handler, pc=0x1226c] > _sqrealloc [handler, pc=0x1265b4] > _sqg_desc [handler, pc=0x12d0c0] > _sqr_desc [handler, pc=0x1294a0] > _iqprepare [handler, pc=0x122068] > _iqnprep [handler, pc=0x121d1c] > > 40 bytes (25 times) + 35 bytes (60 times) + 33 bytes (35 times) + > 26 bytes (4 times) + 20 bytes (6 times). > Last memory leak at 0x4008f480 >What you're seeing is a stack trace of code point where memory is >malloc'ed but not freed. >I don't want you all to fix this problem for me (unless someone from >INFORMIX recognizes the problem, of course). I would simply like to >forward the output to INFORMIX for investigation. >Ken Kretsch >kpk@mink.ATT.COM >(908)957-2892 >-- >Ken Kretsch >...!att!bubba!kpk >kpk@bubba.ATT.COM