Re: std::string memory leak?

[Carlos Martinez]

On 15 feb, 12:52, "Carlos Martinez" <carlos.mt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have a possible memory leak.
> I use rational's purify to detect memory leaks, and it indicates a
> memory leak in a temporary of std::string.
>
> I have read somewhere that some memory leaks aren't memory leaks at
> all. It seams it could be the memory pool used by the stl.
> I have test with and without GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW environment variable
> enabled, and in both cases there is the memory leak.
> I assume it's a memory leak, because without purify, processes grows
> up in memory usage indefinitely  and because if I change std::string
> for my own very, very basic implementation of string, it disappears
> (no memory growth nor memory leak indication by purify)
>
> Thanks in advance

The process, processes operations, and even all operations are the
same, not always appears memory leak. This suggest, there isn't a
memory leak and enforce the theroy of a memory pool consecuence, but i
don't understand it because process in memory grows indefinitely if i
use std::string