Help! Memory leak using ESQL

The following little program prints no errors, but slowly consumes all available memory: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <ctype.h> $include sqltypes; $include datetime; $char *databasename = "datab"; int main(void) { unsigned long cnt = 0; $Database $databasename; if (SQLCODE) printf("%ld\\n", SQLCODE); do { $char name[64]; sprintf(name, "S%lu", ++cnt); /* make a unique, legal name */ $PREPARE $name FROM "Select user_key_a FROM mytable"; if (SQLCODE) printf("%ld\\n", SQLCODE); $FREE $name; if (SQLCODE) printf("%ld\\n", SQLCODE); } while (1); return 0; } The problem is the ++cnt in the sprintf; if you generate a new name for each statement you prepare, memory quietly vanishes in each iteration. Replacing ++cnt with just cnt does not lose memory. Help! This is a critical problem for my app, which is a server that (as things stand) rapidly runs out of memory and crashes in an embarassing fashion in just a few hours of heavy use. We use Informix/Se 4.0 on a Unisys unix machine (486 based). I am preparing with a unique name each time because I might be preparing lots of statements for lots of different clients, more or less concurrently. If you have a workaround, please send mail to smayo@world.std.com. I also suspect this is not the only leak; chopping the app down to the size shown above seemed to slow the rate of leaking. Is Online more robust about this? Is 5.0? Help!