[Pysdl-devel] Memory leak

[Martijn F. <fa...@ve...>]

Hi there,

I've discovered a memory leak in sdl_events_poll() and sdl_events_wait(),
and also fixed them. I noticed my python processes becoming enormously
huge very quickly in my event loop, and tracked it down to this:

sdl.init(sdl.INIT_VIDEO)
while 1:
    e = sdl.events_poll()

And obviously that shouldn't happen. What I added was this:

Py_Free(s_event_ref);

in both functions, just before the last return statement:

return Py_BuildValue("i", -1);

That fixed it.

PySDL is way cool, by the way. Python too. Amazing how quickly you can
prototype a nice app; I now have objects which draw themselves when
first used, but draw to a buffer and then later on use blit their
pre-drawed contents, and the rest was pretty easy too. I can't do that
in C or C++ so quickly. :)

Regards,

Martijn