On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Alexander Kjall wrote:
> Package: libc6-dev
> Version: 2.3.2-8
> Severity: normal
>
> A memoryleak in regcomp, a example program is included below plus some
> output from valgrind.
>
> It might be that i use it wrongly but I don't think so.
You're not calling regfree() between the first and second calls to
regcomp(). Here's a patch:
--- regcompleak.cpp.orig 2003-10-22 19:01:32.000000000 +0100
+++ regcompleak.cpp 2003-10-22 19:03:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
{
reg = new regex_t;
}
+ else
+ {
+ regfree(reg);
+ }
if(int err = regcomp(reg, "^[0-9]+:[A-Za-z,]+:.*$", 0))
cleanup(err);
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
