[Bug 712243] Lots of valgrind memcheck notes on simple pipelines like "gst-launch fakesrc ! fakesink"

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712243
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | 1.2.0

--- Comment #4 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2013-11-24 19:04:35 UTC ---
> You can see that i used suppressions file.

Yes indeed, sorry :)

> After adding G_SLICE=always-malloc (and also updating glib to 2.36.4), i got
> different result:

> ==10491== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==10491==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==10491==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
> ==10491==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

Ok!

> ==10491==    still reachable: 33,942 bytes in 529 blocks
> ==10491==         suppressed: 279,499 bytes in 1,239 blocks
> 
> This is good. Still i think some of those "one time allocations" could get
> cleaned, as there's gst_deinit() which could take care of it.

Some possibly, yes. But there are quite a few in GLib/GObject as well, which
you won't be able to get rid of. Not really worth the effort IMHO, but feel
free to make patches.

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