[Audacity-devel] Memory leak of menu items under linux.

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

While working on Menu.cpp I noticed the following lines (from 1350):

// Under Windows we delete the menus, since we will soon recreate them.
// rather oddly, the menus don't vanish as a result of doing this.
// Under Linux we can't delete them as this crashes gtk2....
// FIXME: So we have a memory leak of menu items under linux?  Oops.
#ifdef __WXMSW__
   wxMenuBar *menuBar = GetMenuBar();

   // msmeyer: The following two lines make gtk2 crash on Linux
   DetachMenuBar();
   delete menuBar;
#endif

On Debian stable I commented out #ifdef __WXMSW__ and #endif and there was
no crash when returning from Preferences.

Perhaps this was a gtk bug that has now been fixed?

Steve