Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Test] reports incorrect memory leak

From: Richard Webb (richard.webb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-14 09:33:52

Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> mike <mboard182 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > I am using boost 1.34.1 compiled in windows using configure, bjam, & 
> > msvc90.  I've copied my simple test case illustrating my problem below, 
> > and included the output it produces.
> > 
> > As you can see, boost.test is being used, but the regex is part of 
> > microsoft's tr1.  As a note, when I modify it to use boost's regex (with 
> > the commented-out changes seen in code), no such errors were reported.
> 
> This should point you in right direction. Obviously something in MS
> implementation of regex is leaking, or rather is allocating some global
> resources which are not cleared before main() exit.
> 

The MS blog post @
http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/01/08/q-a-on-our-tr1-implementation.aspx
mentions a leak in the Beta TR1 Regex.
It's supposed to be fixed in the release version.