On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:00:00PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Playing around with vld I came to the conclusion
> that there is a memory leak in Qt's plugin system.
>
> When I trace the allocations of Qt
> (see ForceIncludeModules in the vld.ini file)
> I get attached output after just opening and closing lyx.
>
>
> It traces down to the macro in src/corelib/plugin/qplugin.h
> (macro from 4.4, similar in 4.3.2):
>
> #define Q_PLUGIN_INSTANCE(IMPLEMENTATION) \
> { \
> static
> QT_PREPEND_NAMESPACE(QPointer)<QT_PREPEND_NAMESPACE(QObject)> _instance; \
> if (!_instance) \
> _instance = new IMPLEMENTATION; \
> return _instance; \
> }
Which plugin is this?
Q_PLUGIN_INSTANCE is documented not to delete the instance, so this
seems to 'unlucky, but documented behaviour'...
Andre'
