Re: [Devel] PCF driver memory leak??

[Niels Moseley]

Hi francesco,

> NM> The bitmap created by the driver (line 198):
>
> NM>     ALLOC(bitmap->buffer, bytes);
>
> NM> never gets freed when I call FT_Done_Glyph..
>
> AFAIK, FT_Done_Glyph should destroy a glyph, not a glyph slot, and
> that buffer belongs to the glyph slot of the face object.
>
> My question is ``should the bitmap-buffer in the face->glyph glyph
> slot be explicitely destroyed by the driver?''  If yes, please, tell
> me when and where.

I don't know but bitmap->buffer isn't freed by the driver at the moment and 
as far as I can see there is no way of externally freeing the memory. This 
is a really big problem! Could you please fix it.

Cheers, Niels.