For what it's worth, I tested (simply just by watching top output) the code below... and there doesn't appear to be a memory leak. I used the latest CVS code and rebuilt the lib .a files too.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvs/remote/gateway]$ gcc -D_REENTRANT=1 -I. -Igw -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_BSD_SOURCE -DBROKEN_PTHREADS=1 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/openssl -Wall -c test_asdfsd.c test_asdfsd.c: In function `main': test_asdfsd.c:8: warning: unused variable `i' [Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:24:39 +1000] Home Sweet Home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvs/remote/gateway]$ gcc -D_REENTRANT=1 -I. -Igw -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_BSD_SOURCE -DBROKEN_PTHREADS=1 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/openssl -Wall -lssl -lpthread -lxml2 -o teststs test_asdfsd.o libgw.a libgwlib.a [Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:24:43 +1000] Home Sweet Home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvs/remote/gateway]$ [Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:24:44 +1000] Home Sweet Home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvs/remote/gateway]$ ./teststs On Monday, 2004-09-13 at 01:53:32 AM, "Ken A. Redergård" scribbled: > Hi, > > Read your posting in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and have a simliar > problem myself. > > I'm also running SuSE 9.1 and experience a memoryleak which I described > in this posting: > http://www.kannel.org/mailman/private/devel/2004-August/020299.html > > As Stipe Tolj said it does not show up in valgrind, but the leak is > present and increasing as long as the loop is beeing run. > > Could you try to run this piece of code and tell me if you also get a > memoryleak ? > It could be that the while(run) semantics in your example are equal to > the one in the leaking example below. > > /* test_octstr.c */ > > #include <unistd.h> > #include "gwlib/gwlib.h" > > int main(void) { > Octstr *os; > int i; > > gwlib_init(); > > while(1) { > os = octstr_format("sadfasdfasdfas"); > octstr_append(os, octstr_imm("asdfasdfasdfasdf")); > octstr_destroy(os); > gwthread_sleep(1); > } > > /* we never get here */ > return 0; > } > > With regards, > Ken A. Redergård > > -- Benjamin Lee Melbourne, Australia +61 416 BEN LEE http://www.realthought.net/ __________________________________________________________________________ God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. -- William Bragg
