[Xcb] Xpyb memory leak

[Eamon Walsh]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Paul Colomiets <paul at colomiets.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 06 2011, Paul Colomiets wrote:
> >
> >> I believe there is a memory leak in xpyb. It's somewhere in C code,
> >> so garbage collector does not detects it. Basically reply objects
> >> free only at exit of the program. You can find the test code at the
> >> end of this email.
>

The following commit may resolve your problem.  Do you have it in the xpyb
that you are using?
If not, you could try manually adding the code and recompiling.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/xpyb/commit/?id=d4406532543bcdb936b20ffcb03993d7a7207ace



Sorry, where is a bugtracker? :) I've filed a bug into xpyb-ng before.
>
> BTW, how xpyb-ng is related to xpyb. Is it an independent fork? And
> does anybody know which one is better?
>


Xpyb has been broken now for about a year.  The problem is that changes were
made to XCB's language-independent parser during the 2010 GSOC, and I
haven't had time to grok them and fix xpyb's code generator.  I'll get to it
when I can, but until then xpyb will only compile with an older release of
xcb/proto.  I haven't been involved with xpyb-ng but if they have a working
code generator, that may be helpful in getting xpyb to work again.

--Eamon W.
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