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.

> - Noel
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