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curs_memleaks(3X)                                                                          curs_memleaks(3X)



NAME
       _nc_freeall _nc_free_and_exit - curses memory-leak checking

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curses.h>

       void _nc_freeall(void);
       void _nc_free_and_exit(int);

DESCRIPTION
       These  functions are used to simplify analysis of memory leaks in the ncurses library.  They are nor-mally normally
       mally not available; they must be configured into the library at build time using the --disable-leaks
       option.  That compiles-in code that frees memory that normally would not be freed.

       Any  implementation  of  curses  must not free the memory associated with a screen, since (even after
       calling endwin), it must be available for use in the next call to refresh.  There are also chunks  of
       memory  held  for  performance reasons.  That makes it hard to analyze curses applications for memory
       leaks.  To work around this, one can build a debugging version of the  ncurses  library  which  frees
       those  chunks  which  it can, and provides these functions to free all of the memory allocated by the
       ncurses library.

       The _nc_free_and_exit function is the preferred one since some of the memory which is  freed  may  be
       required for the application to continue running.  Its parameter is the code to pass to the exit rou-tine. routine.
       tine.

RETURN VALUE
       These functions do not return a value.

PORTABILITY
       These functions are not part of the XSI interface.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X).



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