RE: [xml] python bindings initialization

[Stéphane Bidoul <stephane bidoul softwareag com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: jeudi 1 juillet 2004 14:56
> To: Stéphane Bidoul
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] python bindings initialization
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:19:01PM +0200, Stéphane Bidoul wrote:
> >   Yes this sounds like an interesting solution, but ... it
> > > break in my regression tests. Basically I compile with
> > > --with-mem-debug
> > > enabled, i.e. all the memory is allocated, from the start, with
> > > the memory debugging shell. Your trick seems to confuse something
> > > somewhere, and all regression tests with python now fail with:
> > >   paphio:~/XML/python/tests -> ./build.py
> > >   Memory leak -422 bytes
> [...]
> > Hm. I can't reproduce on windows. Any idea?
>
>   okay I fixed it. Basically it requires trapping
> libxml2.cleanupParser()
> to substract the amount of memory actually freed when calling
> xmlCleanupParser() from libxmlMemoryAllocatedBase.
>   I now have exactly the same regression tests results as before,
> I also tried configuring without memory debug activated by default and
> that works too. I just commited this to CVS,

Great, thanks.

I wonder why it works differently on windows...

-sbi