[gst-devel] RE : Re: Memory leaks

[James "Doc" Livingston]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 09:31 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> I think it was 0.10.13 originally? But I get the same thing with current CVS.
> 
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856== 719,760 bytes in 8,997 blocks are definitely
> lost in loss record 2,505 of 2,505
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856==    at 0x4021620: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856==    by 0x415A2C5: g_malloc (gmem.c:131)
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856==    by 0x4169E97: g_slice_alloc (gslice.c:777)
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856==    by 0x416A214: g_slice_alloc0 (gslice.c:784)
> ==00:00:03:44.899 25856==    by 0x40FF336: g_type_create_instance (gtype.c:1549)

<snip>

You'll want to run this with the environment variables
G_SLICE=always-malloc and G_DEBUG=gc-friendly set, otherwise you'll get
the above false positive from glib's slice allocator.


Cheers,

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