gideon may <gideon@[...].org>  writes:

>  Hi Dave,
> 
>  I'm experiencing a memory leak when using the
>  return_internal_reference policy.
> 
>  It's probably best explained using the the test_pointer_adoption_ext
>  module and a
>  little test program :
> 
>  ----------- leak.py -----------------
> 
>  from test_pointer_adoption_ext import *
> 
>  a = create("leak")
>  while 1:
>      innards = a.get_inner()
>      innards = None
>      print ".",
>  --------------------------------------
> 
>  When running this program, there is a serious memory leak. When I take out
>  the line 'innards = a.get_inner()' everything is OK.
>  I tried to hunt it down and it seems that life_support system created
>  in life_support.cpp is never deleted, i.e. life_support_dealloc is
>  never called.
> 
>  Do you have any idea what could be the problem ?

Perhaps... a bug in Boost.Python??!

Fixed in CVS, thanks for reporting it.  Extra bonus points if you can
supply a patch to the test that will detect this bug!

>  I'm using return_internal_reference quite extensively and couldn't live
>  without it :-)

Doubtless that's true.  I can't believe I never saw this one before.
That's what you get for not having tests :(
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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