On 10 June 2010 21:27, Tim Vandermeersch <tim.vandermeer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The built-in memory leak detection in MSVC2008 seems not to work (no
>> line numbers), but I've found Visual Leak Detector to work amazingly
>> well (given that I don't know what I'm doing):
>> http://sites.google.com/site/dmoulding/vld
>>
>> Basically, I installed that and followed the simple instructions, and
>> then added "include <vld.h>" to the top of obconversion.h, and then
>> ran "babel" in Debug mode with an SDF to SDF conversion.
>>
>> Converting 5 files, there are 80 memory leaks. Then I found that one
>> of the memory leaks was one of my first contributions to OpenBabel:
>> _frag_atoms = new OBBitVec(_pmol->NumAtoms());. By adding a delete to
>> the destructor I got down to 70 leaks.
>>
>> If anyone's interested in the log file I can provide it.
>
> Yes, I'd like to have a look. When I run in valgrind, I always detect
> a few leaks when reading molecules. I don't know where they are coming
> from but perhaps another tool might contain other information. Just
> like some bugs, these detected leaks can be platform specific.

Actually, it seems that all of the other leaks (I think) are
associated with RegisterOptionParams. Maybe you could take a look.

See http://pastebin.com/q60k28nZ (unfortunately, due to the #include
in obconversion, the line numbers will be one or two off).

- Noel

>> - Noel
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