Re: purify: Free memory read. in shutdown_memory_manager

At 10:52 02-03-99 -0500, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >The PHP memory manager is very simple. It just allocates a chunk of >memory and then hands it out in smaller chunks when requested and >maintains a linked list of these allocated blocks. If someone forgets to >efree() a particular block, then on request shutdown it walks through the >linked list and writes a little note in the error log informing us that >someone didn't efree something and then it frees the entire chunk. It is >an effective safety net which guards against memory leaks. It's actually simpler than that - it doesn't allocate any big chunks and divides them to smaller chunks. It allocates exactly one chunk of memory for every memory block requested. Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net