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2 Sep 2024 12:18:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Free all NULL pointers now form MegaPov0.4.  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 31 Jan 2000 00:32:24
Message: <38951e68@news.povray.org>
Nieminen Juha wrote in message <38948df6@news.povray.org>...
>  Wouldn't it be a good idea to run the program through a utility which
>checks memory usage validity etc? It may catch several bugs.
>  I think there's a utility called purify, but I think it works only with
>C++. I also think that it's commercial and costs a lot.


POV-Ray does this internally.  To turn it on, uncomment the definitions of
"MEM_TAG" and "MEM_TRACE" in the config.h file before compiling the program.
Note: this does slow down rendering noticeably.

Mark


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