On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Peter Johnson wrote:

> I've found what appears to be a memory leak in the 4.5-tp1 release and
> looks like it is still in recent snapshots.  This is the Carbon build
> of Qt.
>
> In qwidget_mac.mm, in QWidgetPrivate::update_sys(const QRegion &rgn),
> it calls:
>
>         HIViewSetNeedsDisplayInRegion(qt_mac_nativeview_for(q),
> rgn.handle(true), true);
>
> rgn.handle(true) calls QRegion::toQDRgn() in qregion_mac.cpp.
>
> QRegion::toQDRgn() allocates memory on the heap with the Carbon API
> NewRgn() and returns that RgnHandle.
>
> It doesn't appear that QRegion keeps track of a Carbon RgnHandle
> internally to clean up when the QRegion goes away, and obviously the
> code in qwidget_mac doesn't keep track of and clean up the RgnHandle.
>
> If I have a flash animation playing, for example, this happens
> constantly and I leak about 100KB/minute.

Hi, thanks for the report, I'll take a look at it and see if I can't  
find fix.

- Morten

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