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Re: Fix for regexp memory leak.

"ccf::satchell"@hermes.dra.hmg.gb writes:

> I have found a fix for the regexp memory leak. In the file regex-posix.c
> the routine scm_regexp_exec mallocs memory for a match structure at line
> 242, which is never freed. Inserting the line 
> 
>  scm_must_free ( (char *)matches);
> 
> before SCM_ALLOW_INTS fixes the problem. Thank you to roland for his help.

1998-06-09  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>

	* regex-posix.c (scm_regexp_exec): Free malloced memory.  (Thanks
	to Julian Satchell and Roland Kaufmann.)