On Tue, 2 May 2006, nerdy wrote: > Hello all, > > I found that the functions pango_font_description_set_family > and pango_font_description_set_size are leaking memory. I am > using pango version 1.4.0. > > fontdesc = pango_font_description_new(); > pango_font_description_set_family(fontdesc,"courier"); > pango_font_description_set_size(fontdesc,size*PANGO_SCALE); > pango_font_description_free (fontdesc); > > When i ran the program (pasted below) and saw the memory usage > profile from top command, i see that a the program allocates a > lot of memory continuously. When i commented out the statements > that i suspect are leaky, i dont see any contiuous memory > allocation. Is this behaviour typical of pango or am i missing > something. Please clarify my doubt. Without checking the code, your Pango version is years old, so I'll not be surprised if it had leaks. > Thanks in advance, > nerdy --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list