[Xastir] Memory fixes, plus special stuff not in the docs

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Thu Jun 24 13:31:05 EDT 2004


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jason Hitesman wrote:
>
> > Grabbed the new CVS sources today and tried them on both my Cygwin setup
> > and my native Linux setup.
> >
> > Oddly enough the memory footprint on the Cygwin system went up, it was
> > 14Meg before now it's reporting 17Meg.  Still stable though it ran all
> > day with no problems.
>
> Somewhere along the way I snuck in another text field to the
> station records struct which holds the new tactical callsign.  I
> suppose I could get busy and turn that into a pointer, allocating
> the record if a tactical call was assigned.  We do similar things
> elsewhere in that struct.

I should be able to change that at lunchtime today:  Only the
stations that have a tactical call assigned will get the memory
malloc'ed to hold them.  The rest of the station records will have a
NULL pointer, which will be a minimal hit to your memory use.

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