[ENet-discuss] packet->referenceCount greater than zero

[Lee Salzman]

enet_peer_send (..., packet);
if (! packet -> referenceCount) enet_packet_destroy (packet);

Doug Kimzey wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been troubleshooting a memory leak in my application that uses 
> eNet. I suspect that we need to do some cleanup on sent packets but 
> would like some guidance – (so please correct me where I am wrong).
>
> · Packets are usually only destroyed when the 
> _ENetPacket::referenceCount field is equal to 0
>
> · In walking through my code:
>
> o A packet is successfully created – and the newly created packet has 
> a referenceCount of 0
>
> o ::enet_peer_send(…) queues the packet fragments when the packet size 
> exceeds the fragment length. For each fragment in the packet, 
> ::enet_peer_queue_outgoing_command(…) is called.
>
> o In ::enet_peer_queue_outgoing_command(…):
>
> · An ENetOutgoingCommand is allocated and initialized
>
> · The packet->referenceCount is incremented.
>
> o ::enet_peer_send returns 0 (success)
>
> o My packet->referenceCount is greater than 0 – so my call to 
> ::enet_packet_destroy(…) is not made and the packet memory is not freed.
>
> Is there an enet function that should be called after ::enet_peer_send 
> that will verify the packet was indeed sent and decrement the 
> packet->referenceCount before calling ::enet_packet_destroy?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Doug Kimzey
>
> Doug.kimzey at dpra.com
>
> DPRA, Inc.
>
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