[vdr] 1.3.22: memory leaks

[Stefan Huelswitt]

On 27 Mar 2005 Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens at 1541.org> wrote:
> s.huelswitt at gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt) wrote:
> 
>> Second is in epg.c tComponent::FromString(). I cannot find
>> anything bad with the code there, but valgrind reports a lot of
>> memory leaks with the sscanf() call. So I guessed that sscanf() is
>> leaking internaly when used with "%a[\n]" (at least with my glibc
>> version 2.2.5). After changing to code to the suggestion below,
>> the leaks disappeared:
> 
> from man sscanf:
> 
> a	Indicates  that  the  conversion  will be s, the needed
> 	memory space for the string will be malloc'ed  and the
> 	pointer to  it will  be assigned to the char pointer
> 	variable, which does not have to be initialized before. 
> 
> so, yes, the user is responsible for freeing memory allocated by sscanf.

Yes, of course. I can read man pages ;)

This is not what I'm talking about. The malloc memory is free'd
by VDR, but there is still some memory leaked. I think it's
internaly lost.
This can be proven with my patch. If the %a[ is obmitted, there
is no leak.

Regards.

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Stefan Huelswitt
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