Re: [boost] [boost.python] tons of memory leak on VC 8.0

From: Tanguy Fautre (tanguy.fautre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-03 08:51:56

David Abrahams wrote:
> Tanguy Fautre <tanguy.fautre_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> I've been assessing and learning boost.python (1.33.1). But when I add
>> memory leak detection to a small test program (cf. attachment), I
>> found tons of memory leaks (about 20 leaks).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug in boost.python?
> 
> Py_Finalize isn't supported by Boost.Python, as
> http://www.boost.org/libs/python/todo.html#pyfinalize-safety explains.
> That should also explain the "leaks" you are seeing.
> 

Thanks for the tip.

I must say I was surprised to see so many memory leak alerts caused by 
Boost; to the point I was doubting I was doing anything correctly. Not 
very clean :-\

"In order to make it safe to call PyFinalize() we must register an 
atexit routine which destroys these objects and releases all Python 
reference counts so that Python can clean them up while there's still an 
interpreter. Dirk Gerrits has promised to do this job." (from above URL)

Is this idea still alive and being implemented?

Tanguy