Debugging memory leak.

[renoX]

Sean Kelly a écrit :
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>>>>   - Try Tango?  Is the GC different there?
>>>
>>> Somewhat, but void[] arrays are still treated as if they have pointers.
>>
>> But AFAICT tango.io.compress.Zlib doesn't allocate any of those, just 
>> ubyte[] arrays, and exception classes. (The unittest does use a 
>> MemoryConduit, which internally uses a void[], but nothing else should 
>> allocate void[]s for that module)
> 
> Yup.  However, an annoying problem still exists with Buffer.  Basically, 
> this class maintains a void[] reference to a block of memory allocated 
> as a byte[].  However, if the block is resized for any reason, the type 
> doing the resizing is used to determine whether the newly allocated 
> block contains pointers.  I've been meaning to change the Tango runtime 
> and GC to preserve array block attributes across reallocations, but it's 
> a somewhat involved process and I haven't gotten to it yet.
> 
> 
> Sean

IMHO, that's a different issue: the compress prototype should be 
modified to indicates that it returns byte[] not void[]: after all, no 
pointer is expected in compressed data, so the function signature should 
reflect this.

Regards,
renoX