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

[David Turner]

Hello Maximilian,

you're right about the leak in FT_Init_FreeType, I've commited a fix for
this. could you test it ?

thanks,

- David

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:59:58 +0100, "Maximilian Schwerin" <address@hidden> said:
> 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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