Re: [Boost-users] [asio] reported memory leaks when using MFC

From: Christopher Kohlhoff (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-18 19:25:25

Hi Christian,

Christian Henning writes:
> Hi there, I have been spending some hour now on trackign down
> memory issues that are reported from MFC.
> 
> In my client program I'm calling io_service::post( ... ) quite
> often and is seems to me that it allocates memory that is
> never been deallocated afterwards. Every call of post( ... )
> will result in one memory leak.
> 
> The allocation takes place in the file
> handler_alloc_helpers.hpp in line 39. Setting a breakpoint
> here shows that every post(...) call allocates some memory.
> The deallocation which is right below in the file is never
> called.

That's very odd.

> Is this an known issue?

Presumably this is a side effect of using MFC, because there is
no leak in a standalone program. I don't use MFC, but do have
access to it, so if you can send me a VC7.1 or VC8 solution that
reproduces the issue I can take a quick look at it next week.

Cheers,
Chris