RE: [Boost-users] newbie question about boost::regex and memory leaks

From: Gregory, Matthew (matt.gregory_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-03 12:43:33

Ben Hastings wrote:
> The only memory allocation I can see is for the array that pclasses
> points to and the strings in it.  These are freed in do_free() which is
> called by the destructor of the last instance of w32_traits_base. 
> Since each of the derived classes of w32_traits_base
> (w32_regex_traits<char> and w32_regex_traits<wchar_t>) has a static
> instance of itself as a member, the memory will not be freed until after
> main() returns.  So if you call _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks() at the end of
> main() this memory will wrongly be reported as leaked.

Ben, this was exactly my problem.  Sorry for the bonehead and thanks 
for the help.
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