Memory leaks

Alex Kiernan alexk at demon.net
Tue Feb 27 05:54:57 UTC 2001


davidsen at tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:

> In article <20010213075141Y.kondou at inn.do.mms.mt.nec.co.jp>,
> Katsuhiro Kondou  <kondou at nec.co.jp> wrote:
> | 
> | In article <723ddjhnez.fsf at nd1.eng.demon.net>,
> | 	Alex Kiernan <alexk at demon.net> wrote;
> | 
> | } Is this an obvious one to anyone - I suspect its the enclosing object
> | } getting freed, without its contents being freed:
> | 
> | No, they never be freed.  The region(ARTDATA *data) is actually
> | static area(included in CHANNEL), and holding pointer and size
> | are never cleared even if the channel is closed.
> 
>   Thank you. I took a few minutes to scan the code to be sure that not
> only were they (deliberately) not released, they do seem to be reused
> correctly. In some sense that's too bad, since we had a place to look
> for the leak.

I'm working on the basis that Purify's confused, I just haven't had
time to prove it yet.

-- 
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, Thus PLC


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