[Cppunit-devel] Having a memory leak problem

[Doug S. <do...@hu...>]

Hi, developers!

First of all, cppunit is a wonderful tool.  I very big "thank you" to all 
who have worked to develop it!

I am using CPPUNIT_ASSERT() in a loop that executes 256**3 times.  I am 
seeing a memory leak that happens only when I use CPPUNIT_ASSERT() -- I 
don't see the memory leak when I use the assert() macro from the standard C 
library.  The evaluation of the boolean expressions don't create any 
objects, nor do they allocate any memory.  (At first, I thought that the 
expressions weren't being evaluated with the assert() macro because of 
NDEBUG, so I verified that they were evaulated.)  The memory leak consumes 
a lot of memory because of the number of assertions that are evaluated, 
making the CCPUNIT_ASSERT() macro unusable.

I use Visual C++ 6 and version 1.8.0 of cppunit.  I used the included 
project file to build it (no changes), and I'm using cppunit.lib.  I use 
the TextUi.

I spent some time looking at the cppunit source code, but I couldn't find 
anything that looked like a memory leak.  The assert condition never fails, 
so (I believe that implies) the exception isn't being thrown.

Does anyone have any idea where there might be a memory leak?

I can also try to run the same code on Solaris with Forte C++ and GCC and 
on Linux with GCC.  That could help to verify if this is just a Visual C++ 
problem.


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Doug Sauder
Software Architect
Hunny Software, Inc
Email: do...@hu...
Phone: 301-948-6999