[Boost-users] [filesystem] Memory leaks when building with MSVC 2010

Subject: [Boost-users] [filesystem] Memory leaks when building with MSVC 2010
From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-15 21:26:05

Hi there,

I'm stumbling over some memory leaks reported by MSVC when using
boost::filesystem. Here is simple code sample that can reproduce the
output below:

#define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <crtdbg.h>

#define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 3
#include <boost/filesystem/convenience.hpp>

namespace fs = boost::filesystem;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    fs::path my_path( "C:\\bla.dat" );

    _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();

        return 0;
}

-- Output:
'test.exe': Loaded
'C:\gil_contributions\solutions\vc10\test\x64\Debug\test.exe', Symbols
loaded.
'test.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or
open the PDB file
'test.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\kernel32.dll', Cannot find or
open the PDB file
'test.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\KernelBase.dll', Cannot find
or open the PDB file
'test.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcr100d.dll', Symbols loaded.
'test.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\System32\msvcp100d.dll', Symbols loaded.
Detected memory leaks!
Dumping objects ->
{268} normal block at 0x0000000000457450, 32 bytes long.
 Data: <C : \ b l a . d > 43 00 3A 00 5C 00 62 00 6C 00 61 00 2E 00 64 00
{145} normal block at 0x0000000000457F50, 24 bytes long.
 Data: <  .?            > A8 09 2E 3F 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
{143} normal block at 0x0000000000457E50, 16 bytes long.
 Data: <8               > 38 F9 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
{142} normal block at 0x0000000000457DD0, 16 bytes long.
 Data: <@ .?            > 40 8B 2E 3F 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
{141} normal block at 0x0000000000457D50, 16 bytes long.
 Data: <  .?            > 10 8B 2E 3F 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Object dump complete.
The program '[1860] test.exe: Native' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Is this a known issue/nonissue? I have a test suite that uses
boost::filesystem in numerous areas and the output is somewhat
disturbing to me.

Regards,
Christian