memory leak in Clone

[1234]

I am getting memory leak in TinyXml if I clone a node.
Is this going to be fixed?

Thanks in Advance!

[Ellers]

Can you be more specific?
Example code that clearly reproduces the leak, for example.
Ellers

[1234]

I am using BoundsChecker and if I load a file and make clone of any child it is showing leak in Clone. Do I need to destroy the cloned node myself if yes then how?

[Ellers]

Again, example code would make this easier to diagnose.
In the absence of that, I'll take a guess...

If you do
  {
    thing = new TiXmlNode();
  }

You have a leak.

But this will not have a leak:
  {
    thing = new TiXmlNode();
    delete thing;
  }

Similarly, this:
  {
    thing = src->Clone();
  }

is clearly a leak, but the following is not:

  {
    thing = src->Clone();
    delete thing;
  }

Recall the doc from TinyXml.h:

  /** Create an exact duplicate of this node and return it. The memory must be deleted
      by the caller.
   */
   virtual TiXmlNode* Clone() const = 0;

alternatively, if you make the node owned by something else that gets cleaned up (either by explicit deleting or by implict deleting when the stack is unwound) then you'll have no leak:

  {
    TiXmlDocument doc;
    ...
    TiXmlElement copy = someNode->Clone()
    doc->LinkEndChild(copy); // node is now "owned"
   
  } // doc will be deleted as stack unwinds, and as doc owns copy, then copy will be deleted

HTH
Ellers