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Sirryan
Newbie (Posts: 7)

Will My Program Leak Memory if I Return before Loop Ends?
28 Jan 2019 08:55:03 pm

Code:

while 1=1 


//Do something


if X = 5


Return


End

Will this leak memory if I Return to parent program before reaching the end of the while loop?

Thanks,
Sirryan

TheLastMillennial
2
Official Cemetech Cake Manager (Posts: 1980)

28 Jan 2019 09:19:30 pm

I don't believe it will. I suppose it's because memory leaks are fixed whenever you exit from a program, perhaps it's because you used a Return statement rather than jumping out of the loop with a Goto.
I made a quick and dirty program to simulate you code and I haven't encountered any slowdown or memory errors yet. (counter was over 1500)

prgmA0

Code:

0->Y


Lbl 0


1+Y->Y


Disp Y


prgmA


Goto 1

prgmA

Code:

5->X


While 1


If X=5


Return


End

SM84CE
1
Super-Expert (Posts: 768)

28 Jan 2019 11:20:00 pm

Yeah, using Return, iirc, will NOT do any mem leaks, however, it is Lbl/ Goto that does.

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