Vahur Krouverk wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
>> As POV-Ray is able to track all memory used, and that tracking will 
>> show all
>> memory "Lost" and then free it anyway, there is no memory leak.  It is 
>> that
>> simple.  Just repeating something that sin't a fact does not make it a
>> fact...
>>
> How about third-party libraries, e.g. TIFF library? Are they tested 
> against memory leaks (or perhaps they are used 'incorrectly', so memory 
> is not freed finally)? They don't use POV-Ray memory allocation routines 
> and as it seems from description, problem is related to image maps. So 
> even if POV-Ray code itself does not leak, POV-Ray as whole might have 
> memory leaks.

There is of course an easy way to check that - use ppm/pgm for all 
images.  These don't use external libraries.

Christoph

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