Re: memory leak in GtkListStore?

[Thijs Assies <thijs_a gmx net>]

Razvan wrote:

> I fill a GtkListStore with 300000 rows and then clear the list store, 
> and this for many times, to check if I forget some pointers in memory.
>
> And 'top' show me that some allocated momory remain nealocated, 
> because memory alocated for my program grows.
>
> GtkTreeIter is allocatred on the stack and is don't need to be free()d.
>
> Perhaps is something I miss, I don't know...
>
> Same thing happens if I fill a GtkTextBuffer with 10000 lines, then 
> delete them, then fill again and so on...
>
> If anyone have some ideas I will apreciate
>
> Thanks
>
> this is the code
>
> #include <glib.h>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> GtkListStore *store;
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv){
>     gtk_init(&argc,&argv);
>
>     
>     store=gtk_list_store_new(3,G_TYPE_STRING,G_TYPE_STRING,G_TYPE_STRING 
> );
>     
>     GtkTreeIter iter;
>     
>     int j;
>     for(j=0;j<100;j++){
>         printf("begin fill liststore\n");
>         int i;
>         for(i=0;i<300000;i++){
>             gtk_list_store_append(store,&iter);
>             gtk_list_store_set(store,&iter,0,"some string",1,"other 
> string",2,"yet another",-1);
>         }
>        
>         // golire
>         printf("delete lines\n");
>         gtk_list_store_clear(store);
>         printf("lines deleted\n");
>     }
>     return 1;
> }


you should download valgrind. en start your program using:  valgrind 
--leak-check=yes ./program        make sure you compiled your program 
with -g3   and when the program exits, valgrind tells you where there is 
a memory leak, wich file, wich line.