On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:11:28 +0200
Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi Grep Guys.
> 
> Please:
> 
> 	clone gawk repo
> 	cd gawk
> 	./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make -j
> 	make valgrind
> 
> Look at the 'definitely lost' lines.  For example:
> 
> ==30472== 240 bytes in 2 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 128 of 170
> ==30472==    at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64
> -linux.so)
> ==30472==    by 0x44D42A: emalloc_real (awk.h:1923)
> ==30472==    by 0x44D42A: xmalloc (gawkmisc.c:57)
> ==30472==    by 0x468806: xnmalloc (xalloc.h:134)
> ==30472==    by 0x468806: alloc_position_set (dfa.c:2057)
> ==30472==    by 0x468D93: epsclosure (dfa.c:2272)
> ==30472==    by 0x468D93: dfaanalyze (dfa.c:2601)
> ==30472==    by 0x46CA84: dfacomp (dfa.c:3531)
> ==30472==    by 0x463284: make_regexp (re.c:231)
> ==30472==    by 0x414548: make_regnode (awkgram.y:5005)
> ==30472==    by 0x416A33: yyparse (awkgram.y:505)
> ==30472==    by 0x41C9E3: parse_program (awkgram.y:2580)
> ==30472==    by 0x40D373: main (main.c:459)
> 
> There may be other paths as well.
> 
> Can y'all track this down and fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold

Thanks for the report.  It is caused by temporarily allocated memory not
freed.