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From: Christopher Broeg <broeg@astro.uni-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: many exceptions cause memory leak?
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:45:03 +0200
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Date: 2005-10-26T14:45:03+02:00
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Hi everybody,

I finally found the (second) reason for the memory leak:

I was calling HDF5 library (c version) functions. When a string was 
needed I passed it using

name => cs.new_string("whatever")

this created a new c-pointer and i didn't deallocate it. Stupid mistake, 
really. It is the first time I call foreign libraries, so I didn't 
comprehend fully what the new_string does.

Thank you all very much for your help!


chris