[Vala] delegate variable "feature" or vala bug

[Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah ubd edu bn>]

Dear all,

I had a memory leak in my app that I traced to
a delegate variable. Something like this:

   class X {
      delegate void Delegate ();
      Delegate d;

      public void xx () {
         d = () => { do_stuff ();};
      }
   }

Given the above, the following will leak memory:

   {
      new X(). xx ();
   }

I think this is because there is an unavoidable
reference cycle between d and the X object. Is
this correct? If not, then it may be a vala bug.

I can fix the memory leak by setting d to null
before the X object gets unreffed (this makes
it sound like a vala bug).


Nice day
Nor Jaidi Tuah




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