Re: gtk memory leaks

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Sreenidhi.B.G" <nidhi ncoretech com> writes:
> I have been facing this problem with the memory leak. I have written a gtk
> application that uses a text widget. The text manipulation takes place in a
> function call. on repeated invocation of this function call the application
> gets slow and finally crashes with error "Glib could not allocate x bytes".
>
> I guess, the memory that has been allocated to text widget and the text (
> string) is not getting freed and is still there in the heap even after my
> function has exited. the data on the stack gets freed but what happens to the
> one's on heap, is there a way ( an API ) for the programmer to free the memory
> that has been allocated by gtk.

When a program exits, all memory from both stack and heap will be
freed.

I think you just have a memory leak of some kind, "could not allocate
x bytes" comes from running out of memory. Use a leak detection tool
such as memprof to detect the problem.

Havoc