Re: [Cppunit-devel] Having a memory leak problem

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

Would you mind sending me your test programm (how do you detect the leaks
?). I have a good idea on how to chase it.

Thanks in advance,
Baptiste.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Sauder" <do...@hu...>
To: <cpp...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 9:29 PM
Subject: [Cppunit-devel] Having a memory leak problem


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