[antlr-interest] Re: Memory Leak?

[lgcraymer]

That is probably right-- CommonAST::~CommonAST() does not delete its
"text" field; CommonToken has a similar "feature" since it inherits
its destructor from Token.  That may not be easy to fix, short of
adding ref-counted strings.  Ric may have a suggestion.

--Loring


--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Peggy Fieland
<madcapmaggie at y...> wrote:
> From what I can tell from my investigations, it's
> storage for strings allocated by ANTLR when building
> the trees that isn't getting freed.
> 
> 
> --- Mark Lentczner <markl at g...> wrote:
> > > Sounds like this is C++, yes?
> > In my project we invoke an Antlr generated C++
> > lexer, parser and tree 
> > parser several hundred times during the unit tests
> > on start-up.  We 
> > test strenuously for memory leaks - and we are not
> > leaking in any of 
> > these tests.
> > 
> > Now, of course, we may not be making use of all the
> > features of Antlr, 
> > and so, may not be hitting a bug that you are.  But,
> > you should look 
> > strongly at the semantic actions embeded  the
> > grammar - and ensure that 
> > they are not leaking.
> > 
> > 	- Mark
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