Re: [Libusb-devel] "memory leak" debug message after libusb_close, and upon application exit.

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:54 AM, John Clark <jec...@ai...> wrote:
> I've been debugging my Windows App using 1.0.8 the
> libusb library.

Which version? Are you using libusb.git or the binary
snapshots of libusb-pbatard?

> Upon exit, using Visual Studio 2010 debug, the debug message
> window has a number of messages relating to a memory leak.
> From the diagnostic it appears to be memory associated with
> the list of USB devices that was 'scanned' and built during either
> the libusb_init, or libusb_open_device_with_vid_pid.
>
> Is there some other house keeping function to be called when
> exiting the program, or is this just 'harmless' as the program is
> exiting anyway.

What if you try libusb_exit() which is the counterpart of
libusb_init()?
http://libusb.sourceforge.net/api-1.0/group__lib.html

Or you can try the following functions.
libusb_release_interface()
libusb_free_device_list()
http://libusb.sourceforge.net/api-1.0/group__dev.html


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Xiaofan