checking for memory leaks in gtk

[Ionutz Borcoman <iborco gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to test for memory leaks in GTK+ apps. I've created a 
very simple HelloWorld app and profiled it with valgrind.

The source code and the valgrind output are attached.

I have run valgrind as:

  G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly \
    valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --leak-resolution=high \
    -num-callers=20 ./helloworld &> helloworld.out

The result was:

==15450== LEAK SUMMARY:
==15450==    definitely lost: 429 bytes in 5 blocks.
==15450==    indirectly lost: 180 bytes in 13 blocks.
==15450==      possibly lost: 800 bytes in 20 blocks.
==15450==    still reachable: 362,035 bytes in 9,875 blocks.
==15450==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.

I'm surprised that even for such a simple program I still get memory leaks. So 
I'm probably doing something wrong.

Here are the gtk/glib versions I used:

  $ pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --modversion
  2.12.9
  $ pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion
  2.16.3

I am using Debian unstable. The exact packages I'm using are:

  libglib2.0-dev		2.16.3-2
  libgtk2.0-dev		2.12.9-3
  valgrind			1:3.3.0-1

Please help me check for memory leaks in GTK.

Is valgrind the tool of choice for testing memory leaks with gtk? Is there 
other free better tool?

Thanx.

Johnny

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

static void destroy(GtkWidget*, gpointer);

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

	GtkWidget* window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
	gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "Hellow World");
	gtk_widget_show(window);

	g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(window), "destroy", G_CALLBACK(destroy), NULL);
	
	gtk_main();
	
	return 0;
}

void destroy(GtkWidget* window, gpointer data)
{
	gtk_main_quit();
}

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