Some memory leaks as pointed out by Valgrind

conrad at mail.watersprite.com.au conrad at mail.watersprite.com.au
Sun May 6 20:33:17 EDT 2007


> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:26:52PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Here is some output of valgrind. This is with "gnucash --nofile" and
>> directly
>> terminating the program again. I'm trying to get some actual numbers for
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431324 , but as one startup of
>> gnucash with valgrind takes approx. 10 minutes :-) , I'm progressing
>> quite
>> slowly.

Yes, it is slow, isn't it.... :-)

 But some issues are there already:
>>
>> ==5392== 44,394 bytes in 1,676 blocks are definitely lost in loss record
>> 251
>> of 261
>> ==5392==    at 0x4023515: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
>> ==5392==    by 0x559B265: g_malloc (in
>> /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1200.4)
>> ==5392==    by 0x55AEA98: g_strdup (in
>> /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1200.4)
>> ==5392==    by 0x557D5E3: g_cache_insert
>> (in /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1200.4)
>> ==5392==    by 0x4055C20: qof_util_string_cache_insert (qofutil.c:296)
>> ==5392==    by 0x4048EBF: qof_collection_new (qofid.c:101)
>> ==5392==    by 0x404EDFB: qof_book_get_collection (qofbook.c:302)
>> ==5392==    by 0x404ACC7: qof_instance_init_data (qofinstance.c:287)
>> ==5392==    by 0x408EB74: book_sxes_setup (SX-book.c:251)
>> ==5392==    by 0x40514E0: qof_object_book_begin (qofobject.c:66)
>> ==5392==    by 0x404F3F6: qof_book_new (qofbook.c:88)
>> ==5392==    by 0x40588E6: qof_session_new (qofsession.c:197)
>> Seems like the keys in the g_cache should be explicitly free'd after
>> use, but
>> currently they aren't.
> This leak is at least documented in book_sxes_setup().

I think this is the one I have a patch for... but I've probably done it
the wrong way, so go ahead and fix it properly!

Conrad.



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