Re: [xml] memory leak while parsing from memory buffer

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming backtobasicsmgmt com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   In my experience nothing replace running regression tests with memory
> debug enabled before any commit to the code base. I don't know if you can
> do that with perl, but it saved tremendous amount of time for libxml2 and
> libxslt because the leak show up at the moment you try to commit the guilty
> code to the CVS base, not weeks or months later.

And if you've never used valgrind to do this testing, do so ASAP :-) 
It's amazingly useful as long as you can test on an x86 system, it found 
problems for me that would have been nearly impossible to find any other 
way (like referencing off the end of an allocated block of memory).