Re: [libxml++] memory leak in SaxParser

[Christophe de V. <cde...@al...>]

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Le Mercredi 23 Avril 2003 18:04, thierry a =E9crit :
> I have encountered a memory leak (not signalized by Purify) in the class
> SaxParser. in the function parse() :
>
> "_context->sax =3D & _sax_handler;
>
> [..]
>
> release_underlying();"
>
> is not valid. structure allocated in xmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt for the sax
> handler is never released due to
>
> "_context->sax =3D 0 " in release_underlying().
>


Thanks for reporting this problem.

In fact the good solution is probably to use xmlSAXUserParseFile and=20
xmlSAXUserParseMemory to create the contexts, and not=20
xmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt and xmlCreateFileParserCtxt which are to be used=
=20
only for DOM.

I'll commit a patch by the evening.


Best regards,

Christophe
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