From e0d500de864caa925f37f8e6b5a688269ca892bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Fry <fry@processing.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:10:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] avoid memory leak

---
 core/src/processing/data/StringList.java | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/src/processing/data/StringList.java b/core/src/processing/data/StringList.java
index 65d73ceb9..3507545b6 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/data/StringList.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/data/StringList.java
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ public class StringList implements Iterable<String> {
     if (count == 0) {
       throw new RuntimeException("Can't call pop() on an empty list");
     }
-    String value = get(count-1);
-    count--;
+    count--;  // back up to the last entry
+    String value = get(count);
+    data[count] = null;  // avoid leak
     return value;
   }