[PD] Iterative text with Gem?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, B. Bogart wrote:

> correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as there is no "symbol" in front of 
> the atoms that get funneled into text3d, there is no memleak or filling 
> up the symbol table, since we're not using symbols at all, just lists of 
> atoms...

the leak is with all symbols, including all symbol atoms, including those 
found in lists and t_atoms and various objects as well as all selectors.

when you have a list message, you have a t_atom[]; each t_atom[] thing is 
made of some number of t_atom things, and each t_atom contains a t_word 
which can be a t_symbol* which in turn refers to a t_symbol, which is 
something allocated by gensym() and never deallocated.

> Maybe a string type should be higher on the PD list than a video/image
> type?

Whose todo-list? Not Miller's.

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