From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Thu Nov 25 00:29:56 1993
Subject: Memory leak in octave
From: fui at ee dot nus dot sg (Fong Kin Fui. Ext 2145)
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 14:30:04 EET

Hi,
	I like to report that there is a possible memory leak
in octave. I'm currently using octave 0.79 but the problem was there
since 0.76. I'm currently running it on aix 3.2.5. The compilers used
were gcc 2.4.5 and xlf fortran compiler. The bug may not be platform
dependent, since I'm running 0.76 in a linux machine at home and the
same problem occurs.

	I've included a octave (matlab) program that will give the
memory leak. 

Regards
Fui

PS. I've been running octave for quite a while and like it. The main
    advantage is portability across platforms. We only have matlab for
    DOS in the lab. One problem though, can't seem to compile for
    SunOS 4.1.3. More later.

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function test
  
  while (1)
    a=rand(100,100);
    b=rand(100,100);
    c=[a;b];
    a=[];
    b=[];
  end