[Xastir] Font and Station Text style

[Ken Koster]

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 8:17:20 AM PDT Ken Koster wrote:
> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 7:42:02 AM PDT Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 07:07:43AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the
...
> > It gets worse, though.
> > 
> > Ever since doing the CVS update with this font size issue, Xastir's been
> > crashing somewhat randomly after hours of uptime, with no helpful
> > information ("Killed" is all the shell says).  No core drop or anything.
> > The reason is hidden in the syslog:  "out of swap space."  This is on a
> > machine with 24 GB of RAM and no swap, with nothing other than Xastir
> > running at the times when it crashes.
> > 
> > So clearly there's a memory leak somewhere.  I don't have time to track it
> > down myself.  So in my local copy, I've just reverted to revision 1.122 of
> > draw_symbols.c.
> 
> I will check it out,  I have an idea where it might be and that I missed
> doing some magick that was done in the previous version.

Fixed it!  At least I think I did.  Xastir seems stable on my system where the previous version 
clearly had a continuous uptick in memory usage.

I missed needing to free up some font info. That's what comes from not 100% understanding 
the original code.
The latest rev is in CVS.

Still noodling on the proportional font issue.   
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