Thank you for the informative answer.
Since MS VC++ and boundschecker notices these leaks, it would be nice to
have a "cleanup" routine which could be called at the end of the app.
- Martin
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From: "Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: Memory leak in SSL_CTX_new / SSL_CTX_free thru a call to
CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index()
> From: "Martin Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> N8Schwaermer> So, a single call to CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index() allocated
> N8Schwaermer> these memory blocks and nothing frees them.
> N8Schwaermer> Am I missing something?
>
> This is perfectly normal. What happens is that a number of functions
> are registered for a "type" (completely defined by the caller) of extra
> data. This structure of pointers is then stored in a stack, and
> that's what you see being allocated in your tracebacks . Since it's
> meant to be possible to reuse, given an index into that stack, it's
> stored globally and stays around for the lifetime of the proocess.
>
> There's a reason there's a call to MemCheck_off() in the beginning of
> CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index() :-)...
>
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