Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Continuing Freeing memory

[Joachim L. <lu...@ho...>]

I did a search about memory leaks in IE in Microsoft's knowledgebase. These are the issues that seemed relevant or could shed a light on this dark matter :-)


Complex DHTML Pages Cause Memory Usage to Increase Beyond Bounds
	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q248/6/30.asp
	Status: Fixed in 5.01

Memory Leak in Internet Explorer When Background Image Is Resized
	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q254/6/37.asp
	Status: Not relevant to DynAPI, but fixed in 5.01 SP1

Memory Leak in Internet Explorer Default Download Behavior
	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q259/3/65.asp
	Status: Not relevant to DynAPI, but fixed in 5.5 SP1

Memory Leak in JScript Array.toString and Array.toLocaleString Methods
	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q281/1/48.asp
	Workaround: Use Array.join(",") instead of the Array.toString method.
	Status: Bug exists in JScript 5.5, not in earlier versions

COM Objects Created in JScript Not Released Immediately
	http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q164/4/94.asp
	Status: Not a bug, and not relevant to DynAPI


The Array.toString method was the only "live" bug I found, but I don't know if it's used anywhere in the code, but there is a workaround. There must be other issues because I use the workaround in my own code, and I still have the memory problem.

Personally I'm suspecting the first one hasn't _really_ been fixed.

/Lunna