[gdal-dev] Memory leak from GDALRasterIO

[Frank Warmerdam]

Kevin F Webb wrote:
> Good day!
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> I am experiencing a memory leak from looped calls to GDALRasterIO(). It 
> may be something I am doing improperly
> because I use/call RasterIO() in a C++ program that runs leak free.
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> I "migrated" the C++ code to the GDAL C API so that I can integrate some 
> really old C code downstream from the GDALRasterIO() call.
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> The leak was observed on v1.5.2, so I upgraded to 1.7.2 and am 
> experiencing the same effect.
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> Are there special options or considerations when compiling C code 
> against the GDAL library?

Kevin,

You haven't shown your code, but I suspect you aren't closing the
datasource and so the block cache isn't getting cleaned up.

Best regards,

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