On Sunday 22 February 2009 01:53:39 pm Brandon Black wrote:
> The invalid free is because you're calling ev_loop_destroy on the
> default loop. Check the docs for ev_default_loop(),
> ev_default_destroy(), ev_new_loop(), and ev_destroy_loop().
OK, switching to ev_default_destroy solves most of the leaks.
> The "leak" isn't really a leak.
Maybe not a leak in that it grows over time, but its an indication that
shutdown wasn't as clean as I would like. :)
> It's a data structure global to libev that's allocated at startup and never
> freed, but it doesn't leak.
This can be fixed by using a destructor (which is valid from gcc 2.7 and
later). The following patch allows valgrind to run cleanly.
-Steve
diff -urp libev.orig/ev.c libev/ev.c
--- libev.orig/ev.c 2009-02-23 08:58:44.000000000 -0500
+++ libev/ev.c 2009-02-23 08:57:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -1397,6 +1397,13 @@ loop_init (EV_P_ unsigned int flags)
}
}
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 3
+static __attribute__ ((destructor)) void fini_lib(void)
+{
+ free(signals);
+}
+#endif
+
static void noinline
loop_destroy (EV_P)
{
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