[vtkusers] Resource Leak with VTK + BCB6

[N Smethurst]

I suggested this code in April. Is it really surprising that many people 
cannot be bothered to report bugs anymore if our emails are ignored??

Le Mardi 12 Août 2003 12:32, John Biddiscombe a écrit :
> Hmmm....I see.
>
> Looking at vtkTimerLog.cxx and .h I see that AllocateLog allocates some
> memory but there's no cleanup in the destructor - as it's a static
> structure it may be reused at different time. I think it'd be best to
> add a static cleanup method in there that can be called just before
> program exit by the user.
>
> try this
>
> add to vtkTimerLog.h
>
> static void DeallocateLog();
>
>
> add to vtkTimerLog.cxx
>
> void DeallocateLog()
> {
>   if (vtkTimerLog::TimerLog != NULL)
>     {
>     delete [] vtkTimerLog::TimerLog;
>     }
>   vtkTimerLog::TimerLog = NULL;
> }
>
> and at some point when your program is about to exit and no more vtk
> objects are going to be used, do a vtkTimerLog::DeallocateLog(); call.
> This will free up the memory. Is this only used when some debugging is
> enabled, or is it always used?
>
> If this fix cures the problem, then I guess it can be added, but there
> ought to be some invisible timerlog management that does this
> automatically...
>
> JB
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