Memory leakage question

Markus Moeller huaraz at moeller.plus.com
Sun May 20 12:40:46 EDT 2007


"Michael B Allen" <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote in message news:20070520122132.02e61b6f.mba2000 at ioplex.com...
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 15:27:16 +0100
> "Markus Moeller" <huaraz at moeller.plus.com> wrote:
> 
>> as I use GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET mechs will never be freed or is there a way to 
>> free it from my application ?
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> You mean the static list of mechs? Why do you want to free that?
> It should only be initialized once in the lifetime of the library.

That is what I wasn't sure about.

>
> At least that's what it looks like from the information you posted.
> 

> In my experience with running valgrind on mechglue, I recall there are
> things that are initialized once when first used and never freed. So
> technically they are leaks and valgrind picks them up but the leaks
> should never grow beyond a fixed size.
> 
> Mike
> 
> PS to kitten: This is another thing that would be more elegant with an
> application context.
> 
> -- 
> Michael B Allen
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> http://www.ioplex.com/
> ________________________________________________

Thanks 
Markus


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