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Re: [Q] automagic define/undefine with dynamic-link/dynamic-unlink

Ole Myren R|hne <mrohne@mixing.uio.no> writes:
>
> Marius Vollmer writes:
>  > 
>  > How do you watch the memroy size?  With "top"?  Top usually displays
>  > the size of a process in multiples of 1K, I think.  And anyway
>  > externally visible memory grow should come in larger blobs than 16
>  > bytes I think.
> 
> I did:
> 
> (do ((i 0 (+ i 1))) 
>     ((= i 102400)) 
>   (dynamic-unlink (dynamic-link "./mysin.so")))
> 
> and divided the resulting increase by 100K (Surprise;-).

Ahh, I see.

> Fine! If you replace your infinite loop by a finite loop, you'd be
> able to report to the libdl implementors how much memory each
> invocation leaks;-)

Yes, but somehow, I don't really care.  Glibc (aka libc6) has a brand
new dlopen implementation I guess, and I don't bother to report bugs
against libc5.