[Valgrind-users] Potentially lost memory

2013-03-14 Thread Phil Longstaff
Probably more a question for developers than users, but let me start by asking it here... Memcheck will report that memory is potentially lost if there is no pointer to the beginning of a block, but there is an internal pointer. One valid use of an internal pointer is a pointer to a base

Re: [Valgrind-users] Potentially lost memory

2013-03-14 Thread Philippe Waroquiers
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 19:21 +, Phil Longstaff wrote: Memcheck will report that memory is potentially lost if there is no pointer to the beginning of a block, but there is an internal pointer. One valid use of an internal pointer is a pointer to a base class in C ++. How hard would it be

Re: [Valgrind-users] Potentially lost memory

2013-03-14 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Philippe Waroquiers philippe.waroqui...@skynet.be wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 19:21 +, Phil Longstaff wrote: How hard would it be for memcheck to not report a block as being potentially lost if the internal pointer could be a pointer to a base class? Is

Re: [Valgrind-users] Potentially lost memory

2013-03-14 Thread Philippe Waroquiers
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 14:18 -0700, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Philippe Waroquiers philippe.waroqui...@skynet.be wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 19:21 +, Phil Longstaff wrote: How hard would it be for memcheck to not report a block as being potentially lost