[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-485139 ] mem leak in interpreter from syntax err

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Bugs item #485139, was opened at 2001-11-24 10:45
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: mem leak in interpreter from syntax err

Initial Comment:
when a syntax error occurs in the interpreter, the
interpreter leaks
see the attached file for more info

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-12-06 19:11

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Neil, can you provide more evidence?  I can't see this leak
in a loop, like this:

| while 1:
|     try: compile("/", "", "exec")
|     except SyntaxError: pass


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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-11-27 12:05

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Assigned to Barry.

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