Memory leakage question

[Ken Raeburn]

On May 20, 2007, at 12:21, Michael B Allen wrote:
> 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.

It should be possible to load the library with dlopen, use it, do  
appropriate cleanup, dlclose it, and do that in a loop a large number  
of times without leaking memory.  The library finalization function  
should free up any global storage retained within the library.

Ken