Re: Using the ImageMagick backend seems to leak memory

[Tassilo Horn]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Andreas,

>> Looking at the API, there's
>>
>> ClearMagickWand() clears resources associated with the wand.
>> The format of the ClearMagickWand method is:
>>
>>   void ClearMagickWand(MagickWand *wand)
>>
>> A description of each parameter follows:
>> wand
>>   the magick wand.
>>
>> In the emacs sources, that function's never called.  So that's
>> probably the source of the leak.
>
> DestroyMagickWand should imply ClearMagickWand, IIUC.
>
> I've fixed a few resource leaks, but that did not really help.

Looking at the code examples at 

  http://www.imagemagick.org/api/magick-wand.php

it seems one must call

  MagickWandTerminus();

after destroying the wands.

Maybe that helps.

Bye,
Tassilo