Re: Memory leak within gtkdatabox

[Roland Bock <box2OO6 eudoxos de>]

Hi Jim,

thanks for the hint! I will try to create a new version, soon.

Regards,

Roland

Jim George wrote:
> I have found a potential memory leak in gtkdatabox. I am using the
> gtkdatabox-devel package from Fedora Core 6, version 0.7.0.0-4.
> Valgrind reported leaking memory on a call to
> gtk_databox_marker_set_label, on inspecting the source code for
> gtkdatabox, I found this:
> 
> gtkdatabox_marker.c:567
> marker->priv->marker_info[index].text = g_strdup (text);
> 
> If one calls gtk_databox_marker_set_label several times, the old
> string in marker->priv->marker_info[index].text is never free'd, while
> a new one is allocated by g_strdup. Over time, the application fails
> due to too much memory being used.
> 
> -Jim
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