[gdal-dev] Memory leaks?

[Paul Selormey]

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From: "Simon Perkins" <s.perkins at l...>
To: "Simon Perkins" <s.perkins at l...>
Cc: <gdal-dev at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Memory leaks?


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> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:26, Simon Perkins wrote:
> > Frank was offering to add some user code to free up this allocated
> > memory in GDAL, if you know that you're going to be short of memory.
> > This has to be a manual procedure though since only the user can know if
> > GDAL will no longer be needed. But if you're on this hairy edge then
> > you're almost certainly not going to have enough memory to actually load
> > an image anyway, so I don't really see the point...
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> Just read Frank's e-mail. He sees the purpose of this function as an aid
> to making hunting for real memory leaks less confusing. But I would have
> thought that any decent memory leak checking software would only flag
> leaks that occur in unreachable memory blocks, which does not include
> those drivers. But it's been a while since I last used Insure for this
> kind of thing.
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> Sy
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> Simon Perkins
> Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
> http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~simes
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