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Bug 702028 - e_source_init leak
e_source_init leak
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: evolution-data-server
Classification: Platform
Component: Calendar
3.8.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 627707
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-11 16:02 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2013-06-11 16:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description David Woodhouse 2013-06-11 16:02:01 UTC 
==21714== 188 (16 direct, 172 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5,970 of 7,013
==21714==    at 0x4A08121: calloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==21714==    by 0x376804D996: g_malloc0 (gmem.c:189)
==21714==    by 0x3768025A24: g_get_language_names (gcharset.c:562)
==21714==    by 0x376803E98B: g_key_file_init (gkeyfile.c:571)
==21714==    by 0x376804061C: g_key_file_new (gkeyfile.c:628)
==21714==    by 0x3DDFE39782: e_source_init (e-source.c:1733)
==21714==    by 0x3CFCC2FA9B: g_type_create_instance (gtype.c:1917)
==21714==    by 0x3CFCC14597: g_object_constructor (gobject.c:1855)
==21714==    by 0x3CFCC15B18: g_object_newv (gobject.c:1719)
==21714==    by 0x3CFCC162E5: g_object_new_valist (gobject.c:1836)
==21714==    by 0x3CFD056488: g_initable_new_valist (ginitable.c:227)
==21714==    by 0x3CFD05657B: g_initable_new (ginitable.c:149)
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2013-06-11 16:16:33 UTC 
That's not a leak.  GLib is caching the language names internally.  It allocates the strings on the first call and then returns "const gchar * const *".