Hello,
as part of the nightly testing that I mentioned recently I now also
started to run evolution-data-server and the test program under
valgrind, including --leak-check=yes. That covers the file backends for
calendar and contacts, libical, libecal and libebook. I run with
GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW=1 G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly
My main motivation is to catch memory leaks inside the client program.
Because I neither have the time nor the necessary insights to clean up
Evolution itself, I rather aggressively suppress all valgrind reports
which don't seem to be caused by my own code. I attach the current
suppression file, just in case that a) another client developer is in
the same situation or b) some of the Evolution developers are interested
in the errors that are found (full stack traces are included as
comments; there are quite some leaks, but also uninitialized memory
accesses). All tests were done with a nightly build of Evolution trunk
on Debian Etch over a period of the last few weeks (I could only work on
it occasionally).
Some of the leaks could be explained by SyncEvolution not freeing
resources when it should; unfortunately this does not always show up
with a backtrace that includes the code in SyncEvolution because the
background thread allocates the memory. Is the following code the right
way to free the results of the individual calls? This is what I
currently use after each and every such call that SyncEvolution makes
itself, but I still see leaks for memory allocated in
build_change_list() from libecal.
e_book_get_changes():
static void unref(GList *pointer) {
if (pointer) {
GList *next = pointer;
do {
EBookChange *ebc = (EBookChange *)next->data;
g_object_unref(ebc->contact);
g_free(next->data);
next = next->next;
} while (next);
g_list_free(pointer);
}
}
e_cal_get_changes():
static void unref(GList *pointer) {
if (pointer) {
GList *next = pointer;
do {
ECalChange *ecc = (ECalChange *)next->data;
g_object_unref(ecc->comp);
g_free(next->data);
next = next->next;
} while (next);
g_list_free(pointer);
}
}
e_book_get_contacts():
e_cal_get_object_list_as_comp():
static void unref(GList *pointer) {
if (pointer) {
GList *next = pointer;
do {
g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(next->data));
next = next->next;
} while (next);
g_list_free(pointer);
}
}
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Bye, Patrick Ohly
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Patrick Ohly gmx de
http://www.estamos.de/
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