[vtkusers] How do I find leaks ?

[de Boer Ingo]

Hi,

you should use the VTK_DEBUG_LEAKS flag. Maybe this
will help, too:

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/visualleakdetector.asp

greets
 Ingo

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> Subject: [vtkusers] How do I find leaks ?
> 
> 
> I have recently found out that my VTK app is leaking memory. 
> I rebuilt VTK with leaking switched on and I now get 6 dialog 
> boxes of info. The first thing I noticed was that I don't 
> expicitly use a lot of the objects so they're obviously used 
> by top level objects I do use. I have checked out my app very 
> carefully to see that all New()s are balanced with a 
> Delete(). But I'm still leaking :-((
> 
> So my theory is that some object is blocking the whole 
> destruction process by holding a reference. BUT who is the 
> culprit??? Can anyone give me some pointers on solving this problem
> 
> Thanks Paul
> 
> VTK 5.0 Windows  VC6  MFC
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