[GiNaC-list] Memory leak in dynallocate for relational

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at in.terlu.de
Mon Jan 9 22:54:50 CET 2017


Hi Thomas,

On 01/09/2017 04:49 PM, Thomas Luthe wrote:
> valgrind reports a memory leak caused by dynallocate<GiNaC::relational,
> const GiNaC::ex&, const GiNaC::ex&, GiNaC::relational::operators>
> (basic.h:336). I have attached a minimal example as well as the
> corresponding valgrind output I get. The executable was produced with
> g++ 5.4 -O0 and GiNaC 1.7.1.
> 
> Repeated use of operators == or != for GiNaC::ex does indeed lead to a
> noticeable increase of memory usage in applications, whereas
> ex::is_equal does not have the same effect.

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug!

Indeed, some inadvertent changes have crept into 82df71852. I've
committed a patch.

All my best,
  -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
<http://in.terlu.de/~kreckel/>


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