On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:00:02PM -0700, mt2 wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've just started using xmlParserCtxtInit() and friends to create a
> reusable parser to parse lots of documents in a row (this is the right
> thing to do, keep the parser context alive and parse new documents)
> though I've detected what I think is a memory leak. I wrote a small
Ho did you detected that ? There is many way people usually get fooled
just because they don't understand how memory allocators work.
> program to test the way I am working with libxml. If I am reading
> valgrind's output correctly (there's a real change I'm not) this small
> program is missing one free(); I've attached it's output, too.
you're missing one call at the end of the program
> Finally, I might be using the parser API incorrectly (and there's a
> good chance for that), so if anyone could point me in the right
> direction there, too, I'd be much obliged. Also,
No idea as you didn't provide an exemple reproducing a leak here.
> xmlMemoryDump() doesn't seem to output anything? On Ubuntu, I'm using
probably because it wasn't compiled with memory debug, which is normal
as it's not a default.
> 2.6.31, and on Windows I'm using 2.6.32; I've reproduced this on both
> platforms-- I'm at a loss here...
>
> #include <libxml/parser.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = xmlNewParserCtxt();
> xmlInitParserCtxt(ctxt);
>
> xmlFreeParserCtxt(ctxt);
>
> xmlMemoryDump();
xmlCleanupParser() missing at the end of the program
> return 0;
> }
>
What about reading the documentation ?
http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html
Daniel
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