Re: why is pango_font_description_set_* functions leaking

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 06:03 -0700, nerdy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I found that the functions pango_font_description_set_family and
> pango_font_description_set_size are leaking memory. I am using pango
> version 1.4.0.
>
> fontdesc =  pango_font_description_new();
> pango_font_description_set_family(fontdesc,"courier");
> pango_font_description_set_size(fontdesc,size*PANGO_SCALE);
> pango_font_description_free (fontdesc);
>
> When i ran the program (pasted below) and saw the memory usage profile
> from top command, i see that a the program allocates a lot of memory
> continuously. When i commented out the statements that i suspect are
> leaky, i dont see any contiuous memory allocation. Is this behaviour
> typical of pango or am i missing something. Please clarify my doubt.

You are continually drawing at bigger and Bigger and BIGGER font
sizes... don't you expect this to allocate more and More and MORE
memory?
                                                Owen