ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201107

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_memleaks.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_memleaks.3x b/man/curs_memleaks.3x
index 4477829a112d70357d64bfdff381b87d6d6e7c55..94a5766aea964b802949bbefc1b15be7784e2b33 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_memleaks.3x
+++ b/man/curs_memleaks.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright 2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                     *
+.\" Copyright 2008-2010,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                  *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_memleaks.3x,v 1.6 2017/08/22 08:35:37 Sven.Joachim Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_memleaks.3x,v 1.9 2020/06/13 23:35:34 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_memleaks 3X ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
@@ -43,6 +44,12 @@
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fB#include <curses.h>\fR
 .sp
+\fBvoid exit_curses(int);\fR
+.br
+\fBvoid exit_terminfo(int);\fR
+.sp
+/* deprecated */
+.br
 \fBvoid _nc_freeall(void);\fR
 .br
 \fBvoid _nc_free_and_exit(int);\fR
@@ -51,13 +58,9 @@
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 These functions are used to simplify analysis of memory leaks in the ncurses
 library.
-They are normally not available;
-they must be configured into the library
-at build time using the \fB\-\-disable-leaks\fP option.
-That compiles-in code that frees memory that normally would not be freed.
 .PP
 Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with
-a screen, since (even after calling \fBendwin\fP), it must be available
+a screen, since (even after calling \fBendwin\fP(3X)), it must be available
 for use in the next call to \fBrefresh\fP(3X).
 There are also chunks of memory held for performance reasons.
 That makes it hard to analyze curses applications for memory leaks.
@@ -65,8 +68,8 @@ When using the specially configured debugging version of the ncurses library,
 applications can call functions which free those chunks of memory,
 simplifying the process of memory-leak checking.
 .PP
-These functions are named with a \*(``_nc_\*('' prefix because they are not
-intended for use in the non-debugging library:
+Some of the functions are named with a \*(``_nc_\*('' prefix
+because they are not intended for use in the non-debugging library:
 .TP 5
 \fB_nc_freeall\fP
 This frees (almost) all of the memory allocated by ncurses.
@@ -82,6 +85,17 @@ Simply exiting (with the given exit-code) is safer.
 Use this function if only the low-level terminfo functions (and
 corresponding library) are used.
 Like \fB_nc_free_and_exit\fP, it exits the program after freeing memory.
+.PP
+The functions prefixed \*(``_nc\*('' are normally not available;
+they must be configured into the library
+at build time using the \fB\-\-disable-leaks\fP option.
+That compiles-in code that frees memory that normally would not be freed.
+.PP
+The \fBexit_curses\fP and \fBexit_terminfo\fP functions
+call \fB_nc_free_and_exit\fP and \fB_nc_free_tinfo\fP if
+the library is configured to support memory-leak checking.
+If the library is not configured to support memory-leak checking,
+they simply call \fBexit\fP.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 These functions do not return a value.
 .SH PORTABILITY