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Detected memory leaks?

Other usage issuesWed, 05/09/2001 - 07:271 reply

QuestionAuthorWed, 05/09/2001 - 07:27

Hi,

I am running OCC3.1 under windows 2000 and I Downloaded WindowsNT/9x Binaries (Debug Version). When Sample Program(of OCC) is Debugged by VC++6, the message of "Detected memory leaks!" is outputted to an OutputWindow. Is this normal? Is it a thing with my bad PC environment?

Thanks for your help.

June.

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01Commenter-1Fri, 05/20/2005 - 19:30

Hi June,

Search this forum for "Memory leaks" to read more (e.g. http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_5253/).
The bottom line: in most case these reports are "false positives", i.e. these are no real leaks - OCC Memory manager simply does not free memory unless program terminates. You can control such behavior with env. variables.

Hope this helps.
Commenter-1