Note that if someone builds a plugin around OpenEXR library and unloads it, the memory leak is there. It is small, and mostly just annoying as one needs to add exceptions for memory leak hunting tools. It would be great to have some clean function/method.
Juri
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Michael Reinhardt
Sent: 04 November, 2013 15:58
To: OpenEXR Devel List
Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] Memory leaks in 2.01
Hi Gerhard,
I don't think you encountered a real memory leak. It just looks like one. (I stumbled upon this "leak" some time ago ;-) ). Upon creating a file - or something else that can handle Header object - a function named staticInitialize() (ImfHeader.h) is called. This function registers the basic attributes (e.g. Double, String, ...). These basic attributes are stored inside a static variable of the type LockedTypeMap (ImfAttribute.c). Afterwards, they are not touched again. The registration remains until the process ends. This is expected behaviour in my opinion. (Initialization is done once.)
Since the container for the basic attributes is a "function static variable", it will be deleted upon exit of the calling process. (As all remaining memory allocations will do.)
This memory is allocated once. There is no growing runtime leak. Your memory leak detector is getting angry, because it checks the memory map too early. This "lazy static initialization" isn't recognized by the mem checker.
IMHO, there is no way to circumvent this behaviour without having to initialize the typemap with every creation of an FileObject. And that's not very performant.
I hope, I could allay your concerns.
Michael
Am 04.11.2013 08:04, schrieb Gerhard Huber:
Hi,
when I just create in InputFile
EXRReadFile exrFile(file);
InputFile inFile(exrFile);
I get some memory leaks. I think the problem are some unreleased Attributes. The size of the memory leaks is almost 48 Bytes and one with 104 Bytes.
Gerhard
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