Nov 10 Release

[David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxxxxxx>]

All--

I've put up a new revision of the program on the website at 
http://femm.berlios.de. The purpose of this release is to address the 
long-standing "memory leak" problem that people have been having when 
they execute lua scripts that call the solver a lot (e.g. see 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/femm/message/1420). I've rooted through 
the code and fixed things until the debugger now claims that there are 
no memory leaks. However, although this modified version seems to run 
OK on my machine, I don't know if this actually solves the problem 
described in msg. 1420 for everyone. I'd appreciate it if someone who 
has run into this problem before could check this modified version to 
see if the problem still appears.

If anyone is interested, the biggest offender was that the way that the 
solver shut itself down at the end of a solution, the function that 
frees up the arrays allocated to hold the model, element, and node 
information never got executed. There were also some minor leaks in the 
dialog-based front end that I made for Triangle, which are now also 
fixed. Both the pre- and post-processors, into which Lua is integrated, 
appear to have contained no leaks.

Dave.
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David Meeker
email: dmeeker@xxxxxxxx
www: http://femm.berlios.de/dmeeker