[Gdal-dev] Memory leak? How to release GDAL datasets?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12/13/06, Craig Miller <craig.miller at spatialminds.com> wrote:
> Is GDALClose(m_pDataset) the only method that needs to be called after
> opening a GDAL datset?

Craig,

That should be sufficient.

I really can't think why there would be any polygon geometry
creation going on to open a geotiff file.  I wonder if you might be
getting some sort of false report from your memory tester.

If you can point me to a file that demonstrates the problem,
I could try testing it under valgrind using something like
gdalinfo.

Best regards,
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