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Re: [Patch] Fix some memory leaks

 

Le 12/08/2019 à 21:54, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> Sounds like a plan.  If there are not bug reports against this over the
> next month, I'll will cherry-pick it into 5.1.
> 
> Wayne

I am not sure this issue exists in 5.1.

AFAIK it comes from moving code from our DLIST to std::deque, only in
master branch.

Our DLIST dtor manages (when it has the ownership) the items deletion.
But std::deque does not delete the items, so the code using std::deque
has to delete these items.

> 
> On 8/12/19 3:47 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
>> Wayne, lets let this settle in master for a while to make sure that no
>> issues due to object lifetime surface.
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:20 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Ian,
>>
>>     I merged your patch.  I'm guessing this should be cherry-picked into the
>>     5.1 branch.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Wayne
>>
>>     On 8/11/19 4:42 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
>>     > I was noticing there were some memory leaks inside the board/module
>>     > classes that got somewhat extreme in some cases (I saw ~300MB leaked
>>     > from opening and closing cvpcb in Eeschema when run without a project
>>     > manager). This patch adds some deletion to the destructors of the
>>     > board/module classes, so they now will delete their sub items.
>>     >
>>     > I believe these classes are the respective owners of those pointers to
>>     > the sub items, and my testing doesn't show any problems with this, but
>>     > if anyone can see a case where deleting these sub items on destruction
>>     > might be an issue, let me know.
>>     >
>>     > -Ian
>>     >
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