After rendering a 100 frame animation on my custom compile of the
Superpatch, I checked its report on memory leakage to see where the 16MB of
memory leakage came from.  I found the following entries:

File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\Matrices.c  Line: 986  Size:256
   I think that this leakage occurs because the UV transform is not freed
when an object is deallocated.  I haven't been able to find any references
to freeing UV transforms in the source code.


File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\Splines.c  Line:  80  Size:12288
File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\Splines.c  Line:  78  Size:8
   I haven't had a chance to try tracking this one down.


File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\Normal.c  Line: 563  Size:132
File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\Texture.c  Line: 871  Size:116
   I think these may be from my modifications to the superpatch that reduce
the memory used when you only specify part of a texture while texturing an
object, but I'm not sure yet.


File:C:\Temp\workarea\SOURCE\windows\pvbmp.c  Line: 744  Size:1536
   This one is in the official source as well.  The fix is to add the lines

if(magic != NULL)
    POV_FREE(magic);

to the end of "Open_BMP_File" just before the line "return 1;" (about line
771).


Mark

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