On Sun, Apr 8, 2007, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Aaron Stone wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 22:49 +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> This is good evidence that there may be a problem, but doesn't help anybody
>>>> to find it. If you can construct a few session transcripts that reliably
>>>> cause memory leaks, we can start tracking it down. 
>>> I'm thinking of fixing the code so it will work with libgc. I remember
>>> that was a very instructive exercise that helped the 2.0 code
>>> significantly. I'm not sure though glib and gmime are gc-safe.
>> 
>> So long as all memory allocation runs through Glib, we can use this:
>> 
>> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#GMemVTable
> 
> Isn't that used already? And then, how would that help in fixing any
> possible leakage in third party libs we're using (ldap, sql, gmime)?

We have a lot of dm_malloc, and lots and lots of dm_free. Take a look in
debug.h, where you'll find that they map onto the system's malloc and
free. Worst of all, I think we're mixing g_new with dm_free in some
places.

Aaron
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