Memory leak in dbus / dbus-c++ ?

[P. Durante]

Hi,

On 7/31/07, Olivier Hochreutiner <olivier.hochreutiner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After experimenting some more dbus with the dbus-c++ binding, it
> turned out that there is a memory leak.
>
> It can be easily reproduced with the echo-client/echo-server example
> of dbus-c++. The amount of memory used by echo-client linearly
> increases. I tested only under Windows, but I have no reason to think
> it does not happen under Linux. Anyway it's very easy to reproduce.
>
> I used BoundChecker to detect where the memory that is not freed in
> allocated. It reports three places in the code (see attached file). I
> investigated the problem a bit and it seems that reply messages are
> not freed ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Olivier
>
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you're right, I should have assumed that objects returned by the api
already had their reference count increased by libdbus, I just changed
the binding to handle this case

thank you,
Paolo