Agreed that it’s a defect and should be addressed. It mostly a question of prioritization relative to other work, so knowing about a specific scenario where this is a pressing issue would be valuable.
Kate Stone k8st...@apple.com <mailto:k8st...@apple.com> Xcode Low Level Tools > On Aug 1, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Zachary Turner via lldb-dev > <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > If you're linking against liblldb you can't rely on the os cleaning up > because you could unload liblldb before shutting down the process. > > Also it's good practice to do explicit cleanup since its not always just a > simple matter of releasing resources, sometimes actual shutdown code needs to > be interspersed with the cleanup > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:15 PM Kate Stone via lldb-dev > <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org>> wrote: > Greg Clayton will almost certainly want to weigh in here when he returns next > week. Generally speaking, we’ve had a long tail of issues that only show up > during teardown that we’re avoiding. Leaking resources that will be > reclaimed by the OS when the process terminates is a non-issue. If there are > specific scenarios where a long-lived process leaks significant content that > isn’t an effective cache for subsequent use, please outline how that > manifests. > > Kate Stone k8st...@apple.com <mailto:k8st...@apple.com> > Xcode Low Level Tools > > >> On Aug 1, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Vedant Kumar via lldb-dev >> <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org>> wrote: >> > >> Hi lldb-dev, >> >> It looks like the debugger initializes static variables in llvm (see: >> SystemInitializerFull::Initialize()), but, AFAICT, it never cleans them up. >> >> Does this cause memory leaks? I'd assumed that it's necessary to call >> llvm_shutdown() somewhere to avoid this kind of leak. >> >> Is there a buildbot I can check that tests an address-sanitized version of >> lldb? >> >> thanks, >> vedant > >> _______________________________________________ >> lldb-dev mailing list >> lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> >> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev >> <http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev> > > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > <http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev> > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
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