Re: [xml] heap neutrality while outputting c14n

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:23:48PM -0800, Prashant R wrote:
> Hello ,
> I am trying to output c14n bytes of a specific node in my tree.
> For this purpose I have written a general purpose function that will
> generate C14n bytes by providing a xmlChar** ptr and the xmlNodePtr for
> which I need the c14n outpput .
>
> Issue : I would expect that after calling this function and after calling
> xmlFree() , heap consumption should return to the same value .
>
> I find that for a a node that contains  around 538 bytes I am losing around
> 2K bytes worth of heap memory

  No idea, make a standalone version and use valgrind for leak checking
or compile with memory debug and get a dump at the end if you want to be
even more sure about your code.

Daniel

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