RE: memory leak after unloading of ca.lib

["Hill, Jeff" <johill@lanl.gov>]

> > There are also a number of one-time allocations which aren't cleaned up.
> 
> More CA fixes needed?

The CA client library _is_ cleaning up all of its allocations if ca_context_destroy is explicitly called, but this is of course not universal for components in libCom and or EPICS base.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-
> bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ben Franksen
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:29 PM
> To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: memory leak after unloading of ca.lib
> 
> Am 23.02.2017 um 18:26 schrieb Michael Davidsaver:
> > Personally, I'd never consider trying to unload libCom or libca.
> > Neither was designed with this in mind.
> 
> Carsten (and me) wouldn't either, it's just that Labview seems to insist
> on it :-(
> 
> > For example.  With libCom the errlog thread is never stopped.  And libca
> > registers a function pointer using epicsAtExit().  So if libca is
> > unloaded, then running epicsExit() will fail.
> 
> Perhaps there should be a way to unregister the epicsAtExit callback.
> 
> > There are also a number of one-time allocations which aren't cleaned up.
> 
> More CA fixes needed?
> 
> Cheers
> Ben
> 
> > On 02/23/2017 03:50 AM, Carsten Winkler wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> when your project (e.g. LabVIEW) uses dynamic loading and unloading of
> >> channel access classes your main class will sometimes (at 64 bit nearly
> >> always) crush with a segmentation fault. The reason seems to be missing
> >> free() and delete functions in EPICS Base 3.14.12.6 (I'm sure this
> >> applies also to other EPICS Base versions).
> >>
> >> I wrote a tiny test case to check it and it would be great to get any
> >> advise to solve the issue.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Carsten
> >>
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