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John Gill commented on AVRO-766:
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Open a PR on GitHub for this issue. It fixe both AVRO-1167 and AVRO-766 at the
same time.
> C: Memory leak from reference count cycles
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> Key: AVRO-766
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-766
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: c
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Douglas Creager
> Attachments: AVRO-766.patch, ref-cycle.c
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> If you parse a recursive Avro schema, you end up with a cycle in the
> reference graph for the avro_schema_t objects that are created. The
> reference counting mechanism that we're using can't detect this, and so you
> get a memory leak.
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