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To: David Russell Coburn II who wrote (1869)7/4/1997 1:44:00 AM
From: Paul Beattie   of 3325
 
David,

Answering your post at 1:40AM, a memory leak is what my diplomatic wife will say I have tomorrow morning..

For a PC program, it's when code grabs memory to do work, then doesn't release it properly when it's done. Repeated over time, this results in less and less available memory - until finally the inevitable happens (oops - ran out of memory) Either the program hangs or the PC. Windows95 is better than Win3.1 but it's not rock solid.

Obviously noone "tries" to write stuff this way, but Windows programs are somewhat notorious for this kind of bug. Testing tools exist to help developers catch this stuff. I do think that a memory-related problem is happening in the way Metastock interacts with Win95. I don't know where, and I can't recreate it consistently.

Paul
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