Re: [Libjpeg-devel-6x] Possible memory leak in

[Justin W. <phi...@gm...>]

Actually, sorry I am using the libjpeg v8a version which is where the
jpeg_mem_dest. I didn't realize this is the specific v6 distro list. Is
there a v8 mailing list that you know of?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tom Lane <tg...@ss...> wrote:

> Justin Wetherell <phi...@gm...> writes:
> > I believe there is a memory leak in the jpeg_write_scanlines() function.
> The
> > code below takes a frame image from a dc1394 camera and turns it into a
> jpeg
> > inside a while loop. The memory usage increases 0.1% about every 5
> seconds
> > on an embedded ARM processor with very little memory and processor power.
>
> I'm not sure what jpeg_mem_dest is --- it's not part of libjpeg 6b.
> I'd bet the leak is within the code installed by that.  It is very
> highly unlikely that a leak in jpeg_write_scanlines proper would
> have escaped notice for all these years.
>
> (But are you sure it's a leak at all?  I assume from the name that
> this is code meant to store the resulting JPEG data in memory.
> Perhaps you're just watching the accumulation of output data?)
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>