Hi Karl, On 16/10/12 2:53, Cary, Karl A. wrote: > I am tracking down some memory leaks in our program and have come across a > couple > situations where I am currently not sure if it is/can cause a memory leak. > There are many > instances in our code where we do something similar: > > osg::ref_ptr<osg::Geometry> geo = new osg::Geometry; > geo->getOrCreateStateSet()->addUniform(new osg::Uniform(“blah”, someVal)); > geo->getOrCreateStateSet()->addUniform(new osg::Uniform(“blah2”, someVal2)); > > What I am wondering is, will osg now clean up those 2 new uniforms? Or do I > need that be > created externally as ref_ptrs so when my object deletes they will be > deleted? I > personally want to change it to ref_ptrs, but given the number of places this > change needs > to be made, I at least want to know if the work is truly needed or not.
Since you're not using them yourself you don't have to use ref_ptr in this case. The new'd Uniforms are assigned to ref_ptr members of osg::StateSet and are cleaned up when that object goes away (or rather, they are unref'd and deleted if no one else is using them). Cheers, /ulrich _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
