[Libreoffice] memory leaks found with valgrind

[Marc-André Laverdière]

I think we should have a tiny script with all those goodies to easily
invoke. Or some alias that gets set in Env.Host.sh

What do you think?

Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 21:12 -0500, August Sodora wrote:
> > So hooray we save 160 bytes.
>
>         Great :-) of course, that is the oosplash wrapper that -should-
> exit
> rather sooner than it does IMHO (I still need to look into that for
> 3.5). The main interest would be in running valgrind on soffice.bin (I
> assume you're following forks ?).
>
> >  The second initially makes me think that
> > a matching XCloseDisplay is missing but I'm not sure why the call that
> > is already there isn't getting called if the first leak was fixed:
> >
> > ==11027== 124 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6 of 8
> > ==11027==    at 0x4A06031: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
> > ==11027==    by 0x3FA060BD79: get_peer_sock_name (xcb_auth.c:259)
> > ==11027==    by 0x3FA060BE45: _xcb_get_auth_info (xcb_auth.c:302)
> > ==11027==    by 0x3FA060B84E: xcb_connect_to_display_with_auth_info
> > (xcb_util.c:424)
>
>         Of course this could just as easily be a leak in the X server;
> valgrind
> finds them all over the place :-) anyhow, good to have you chasing that.
> To debug leaks in soffice.bin you really need to:
>
>        export G_SLICE=1
>
>        Which makes LibO use the malloc allocator which valgrind can track
> instead of it's own internal one. If you have run 'linkoo' then source
> ooenv in program/ should set all that good stuff for you :-)
>
>        Thanks !
>
>                Michael.
>
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