looking for a quick&dirty fix to remove memory leaks in freepascal

From: Falcon (noone_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:50:10 +0100

Hi all,

I have made an application in freepascal (www.freepascal.org), which
uses the fgint.pas (http://triade.studentenweb.org/) for big integer
support. My problem is this: I use some iterative functions that
suffer from memory leaks. And fixing memory leaks when using fgint
functions is next to impossible because almost all internal functions
dynamically reserve/resize heap memory.

The weird thing is this: when I use Delphi 6, delphi cleans up the
heap after the function quits. So my question is this: Is there a
quick&dirty or standard method to clean op the mess a function creates
by allocating a lot of memory using getmem in freepascal. So it only
leaks when the actual function is in use. (all leaks are in local
var's)

If the heap is a linear growing chuck of memory, I think it could be
as easy as resetting the heap pointer to it's starting location. Or
maybe the os can be forced to release all allocated memory from a
specific point.

I'm really at loss here, so any help will be much appreciated.

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