Re: memory leak with new GPS in GNAT GPL 2012 on Windows

[francois_fabien@hotmail.com]

Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 19:57:40 UTC+2, (inconnu) a écrit :
> Hi,
>    I installed the new GNAT GPL 2012 on a Win XP 32-bit machine and a couple of times the GPS editor just crashed without warning. Task manager showed that the GPS application is just swallowing memory continuously even when I am not doing anything. Of course, a point is then reached when GPS application just crashes.

I am using WinXP Family edition 32bits with SP3 on single core Celeron.
I installed GNAT GPL 2012 but I noticed i must also change manually the environment variable PATH to use the updated gcc (I have GNAT GPL 2011 installed). Otherwise GPS 2012 use the binaries from the 2011 distro.

Target: i686-pc-mingw32
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.5.4 20120510 for GNAT GPL 2012 (20120509) (GCC) 

Task manager indicates 64 Megabytes of memory used by gps.exe with only 1 thread.
I can compile and run several demos with or without tasking and no crash or leaks.
I also noticed of 4 Kbyte increment of memory every second even when I do nothing.
I think the leak could come from the GTK library. A leak in GTK has already been
reported on this forum.