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- From: flc3527@zeus.tamu.edu (CAMPBELL, FRED LELAND)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Think C Debugger Voracity
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:38 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1993Jan12.231156.1576@fsl.noaa.gov>, urban@yoda.fsl.noaa.gov (Art Urban) writes...
- >I'm currently up to 2Meg, and the dang thing *still* exceeds it. I did
- >notice that after each Step command I issue, the Debugger consumes 50k+(!)
- >of its own heap. Everything its consuming is "unlocked" according to
- >Swatch, but apparently it can't purge anything.
- >
- >So what's a programmer to do?
-
- Are you using Desktop Textures or something like it to give you those really
- neat desktop patterns? I had a similar problem recently and remembered
- reading somewhere (here or think-c?) that when the debuggers steps through
- code it copies something to do with the extended desktop pattern and this eats
- up memory like crazy. I stopped using Desktop Textures and my problem went
- away, your mileage may vary. (Note, I only had the problem when I was stepping
- through code). Of course, this is just a guess.
- Trey.
-