Re: [fltk.general] is there anything i can do about these (font lib) leaks? - Forums

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 6:22 PM Ian MacArthur <imacarthur@gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 Apr 2021, at 21:58, Dave Jordan wrote:
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> they seem to be mostly re fonts
> maybe i dont need some of these libs?
> maybe there are alternatives?
> i have tried updating libfontconfig and its a train wreck.
> the following valgrind report is incomplete but typical:
>

When in the sequence do you see these reported?
If it is only on exit, then they may not really be leaks per se, just valgrind grumbling about things not being tidied away properly (if the process is exiting anyway, the memory will be reaped by the system, whether it is formally released by the exiting process or not...)
But: If they are occurring during runtime, and are accumulating over time, then that’s a leak.

it's definitely after Fl::run() returns (where i print the message "app window closed") and exit.

it still might be an accumulating leak, but even if not it still would be nice to get rid of the messiness (there's about 5x as many messages, all occurring on exit).

after all, i'm going out of my way to clean up that which IS under my control... but if i have to live with it then i guess i will.