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Bug 695050 - Compact classes can silently leak memory
Compact classes can silently leak memory
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vala
Classification: Core
Component: Generics
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Vala maintainers
Vala maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-03 11:44 UTC by Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:42 UTC
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Description Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka 2013-03-03 11:44:38 UTC 
Consider following case:

[Compact]
class LeakMemory<G> {
    G g;
}

LeakMemory<Gtk.Widget>? lm = new LeakMemory<Gtk.Widget>();
lm.g = new Gtk.Window();
lm = null; // lm.g memory is freed, right?

Proposed solution:

 - Add warning for old-style generics that contains generic fields
 - Add attribute [GenericDtor] or similar (possibly [GenericMethods] as well) which allows to pass the generic attributes via arguments rather then store in class.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:42:51 UTC 
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