GNU bug report logs - #31092
25.2: apropos-value: memory leak

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>

Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 07:28:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 26952, 27498, 38629

Found in versions 25.1, 25.2

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 31092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 31092 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31092: 25.2: apropos-value: memory leak
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:43:04 -0400

On 2018-04-08 15:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Indeed, because I couldn't reproduce the problem on my system.
>
> I suggest to try the latest pretest of Emacs 26.1 or build the
> emacs-26 branch of the Emacs Git repository.

Too much the coward for either option. BTW, at line 1154 of the file
apropos.el is a brief comment "permit gc", which might indicate that
this was a known issue at some point. The way that package uses variable
`apropos-accumulator' seems all wrong, creating it as a global and then
manually unsetting it; seems to me it should be locally scoped and
passed as an argument when necessary.

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