[CM] tips for chasing down memory leaks?

[Iain Duncan]

Great, thanks Bill! I figured there would be cool s7 features I didn't know
I didn't know about.. :-)

Sure, checking out the article would be cool too!
iain

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On the memory leak question, there are several increasingly
> verbose tools: (*s7* 'memory-usage), then the heap analysis
> functions like s7_heap_analyze (in s7.c, all on the
> s7_Debugging switch), and valgrind --leak-check=full, see s7.c line
> 103062 under s7_free. Be resigned to infinite data
> and endless blind alleys.  (The internal s7 heap analysis
> stuff is currently undocumented).
>
> The 1989 article was probably the program notes for
> "Leviathan" published with the Wergo CD "Computer
> Music Currents 3".  I have it as a text file if
> you're interested.
>
>
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