(trac issue 2774) memory leak: not detected when struct member is allocated in subfunction

[Alexandru Ardelean]

Trac ticket: http://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/2774

I wanted to reply on that trac ticket, but comments seems disabled [or I'm an idiot ; both seem valid assumptions sometimes].

I wanted to do this internally for a library that allocs memory and free's it via another function.

So, I tried to look at getaddrinfo().
But it does not seem to have a check to mak sure freeaddrinfo() is called.

I was wondering if the <memory> alloc/dealloc thingi would work, but it doesn't.
It makes sense tho, because you need to specify which arg allocs stuff.

Any thoughts on when this would be done, or how ?
Or plans/updates ?
Maybe I missed something while searching for this.

Thanks
Alex

[orbitcowboy]

Thanks for reporting. I pushed a potential fix for getaddrinfo()/freeaddrinfo() handling with https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/commit/c62e46dc6ed452286943c402b8e2ab67ebaefda3.
Could you give it a try?

[Alexandru Ardelean]

Thanks.

Will give it a try.
Seems it was merged in the meantime.

That at least helps me write definitions for other functions :)

I would have replied earlier,but I think I need to enable some email notifications.