Memory allocation problems ?

Piet Kerckhove Piet.Kerckhove at rug.ac.be
Mon Aug 12 13:03:40 EDT 2002


The steadystateGA inserts the offspring into the existing parentpopulation 
then deletes the worst individuals till the popsize equals the given popsize 
parameter.
Hopefully this explains something...

Quoting Mukund Seshadri <mukund at WPI.EDU>:

> 
> I'm using a ptr to an object in a GATreeGenome object and I'm having a
> memory leak. Now ideally I should have the ptr enclosed in an object that
> does all the checking and frees the  memory when appropriate but having
> already commited myself to the simple pointer, I was wondering if I had to
> rewrite the program with a pointer class or maybe I could call an
> appropriate destructor.
> 
> So I declared a GATreeGenome<MyNodePointer>::~GATreeGenome destructor but
> I find its not getting called.
> 
> My program calls ga.step (for the GASStateGA) and I notice that the tmpPop
> is just replaced .. should it also be calling a delete or does that
> happens elsewhere ? Did I miss something ?
> 
> Thanks.
> -Mukund Seshadri
> 
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