Hi David,

There are a couple of memory leak bugs in the C++ library.  We'll try to fix
them before our next release.

Thank you!
Binh-Minh

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>From: [email protected] [mailto:hdf-forum-
>[email protected]] On Behalf Of McCloskey, David L.
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:21 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Hdf-forum] Memory leak question
>
>Any idea why I would get this memory leak?
>
>==18391== 24 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 294 of
>568
>==18391==    at 0x4A1FF2C: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:195)
>==18391==    by 0x5A77DE9: H5MM_malloc (H5MM.c:64)
>==18391==    by 0x59761A2: H5FL_malloc (H5FL.c:175)
>==18391==    by 0x5976E83: H5FL_reg_malloc (H5FL.c:375)
>==18391==    by 0x5A76494: H5MF_sect_simple_new (H5MFsection.c:143)
>==18391==    by 0x5A71D21: H5MF_xfree (H5MF.c:487)
>==18391==    by 0x5A74B64: H5MF_aggr_alloc (H5MFaggr.c:214)
>==18391==    by 0x5A71350: H5MF_alloc (H5MF.c:376)
>==18391==    by 0x5A9310B: H5O_alloc_new_chunk (H5Oalloc.c:809)
>==18391==    by 0x5A94718: H5O_alloc (H5Oalloc.c:1008)
>==18391==    by 0x5AE7AED: H5O_msg_alloc (H5Omessage.c:1935)
>==18391==    by 0x5ADEBC0: H5O_msg_append_real (H5Omessage.c:227)
>==18391==    by 0x5AA2041: H5O_attr_create (H5Oattribute.c:345)
>==18391==    by 0x58244EE: H5A_create (H5A.c:494)
>==18391==    by 0x5821A8B: H5Acreate2 (H5A.c:246)
>==18391==    by 0x60181FA: H5::H5Object::createAttribute(char const*,
>H5::DataType const&, H5::DataSpace const&, H5::PropList const&) const
>(H5Object.cpp:111)
>==18391==    by 0x60183EB: H5::H5Object::createAttribute(std::string
>const&, H5::DataType const&, H5::DataSpace const&, H5::PropList const&)
>const (H5Object.cpp:132)
>==18391==    by 0x4B4C480:
>corestore::HDFFile::writeGroupAttributes(std::string const&, std::string
>const&, std::map<std::string, corestore::Attribute*,
>std::less<std::string>, std::allocator<std::pair<std::string const,
>corestore::Attribute*> > >&) (HDFFile.C:796)
>...
>
>The relevant code is here.
>
>        {
>            H5::DataType newAttrType(getHDFType(attrIt->second-
>>getDataType(),
>                attrIt->second->getStringLength()));
>            hsize_t dims[1];
>            dims[0] = attrIt->second->getLength();
>            H5::DataSpace newAttrSpace(1, dims, NULL);
>            H5::Attribute newAttr = baseGroup.createAttribute(attrIt-
>>first,
>                newAttrType, newAttrSpace);
>// <-- line 796
>            newAttr.write(newAttrType, attrIt->second->getData());
>        }
>
>The newAttr object goes out of focus after this block so I think everything
>should be clean on my end.  This is the only remaining memory leak I have
>found so it this shouldn't be being caused by another leak indirectly.
>
>David McCloskey
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