[MacPerl] Orphaned and undisposed AppleEvents/Descriptor

["Shin Yamamoto" <yamamotos@biomed.wustl.edu>]

Hi all,

First question.
Could someone tell what would happen if an AppleEvent is not consumed?

One possible situation is this. MacPerl sends an AppleEvent with kAENoReply
but without an event handler to a target app, expecting nothing comes back.
For whatever the reason, if the target app sends back an event back to
MacPerl, the particular event will never be removed from the event queue. Am
I right? Does this lead to system wide problems? Or is the event removed by
MacPerl no matter how it is handled in script space?

Second
What would happen if I failed to dispose created and/or received
descriptors? Just an application (MacPerl) level memory leak or does it
become system level leak?

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Shin Yamamoto
Washington University
Dept of Biomedical Engineering

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