[ft-devel] xine-lib leaking memory (lot's) with freetype

[Maximilian Schwerin]

Hi,

I've been tracking down a problem some people have been having with
oxine (a xine frontend) leaking lot's (MB/s) of memory.

What I found in the end was that if xine-lib is compiled with freetype
support enabled every time FT_Init_FreeType is called (and fails) in
osd.c freetype mallocs some memory that is not freed. 

Because oxine calls osd_set_font frequently and the call to
FT_Init_FreeType fails every time more and more memory is lost leading
to oxine being killed in the end.

Disabling freetype solves this problem.

I know this is not really a problem of xine-lib, but I wanted to inform
you anyway. I'm CCing this to the freetype people as well.

Cheers, Maximilian

Ps: If I'm not mistaking (I've just had a look at the code of
FT_Init_FreeType) the memory that is allocated with FT_New_Memory is not
freed in case of a failed call to FT_New_Library.
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