[Audiere-users] Freeing loaded sounds / memory leak woes

[Jacky J]

Hi,

I have a wrapper class for sound that calls a LoadSound function. Device is
a AudioDevicePtr that is a private member of the class.
I'm having a problem with the sound files not being freed when they're "out
of scope".

I narrowed the problem down to this (a different, simplified version of the
LoadSound function)


int SoundClass::LoadSound(.....) {

audiere::OutputStreamPtr Data(audiere::OpenSound(Device, "test0.ogg",
false));
if (!Data) {
return 0;
}

return 1;
}

Since Data goes out of scope as soon as the function ends, it should free up
the memory that was allocated, right? I find that when i call this function
repeatedly, it nevers frees up the memory, causing a memory leak.

However, i did find that if reassigned Device everytime that function got
called, it would free up memory.

I am doing this right? What's the best way to free memory?

Thanks

[Matt Campbell]

Hello:

It looks like you're doing it right; you're using a smart pointer, so
the memory should be freed as soon as that pointer goes out of scope.
Which device implementation are you using, and which version of
Audiere? Thanks.

[Jacky J]

OS is Windows XP, Visual Express C++ is the compiler, Audiere version 1.9.4.

I've made a simple project that demonstrates the problem:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~witkowsk/files/audtest.zip

Note you'll have to set the working directory to "working" to run it from
the IDE. You can also run the prebuilt .exe from the working folder.

I've run it through debugger and it seems like the number of calls to
unref() matches up with ref(), so i don't know why it won't release the
memory.

Thanks

Post by Matt Campbell
It looks like you're doing it right; you're using a smart pointer, so
the memory should be freed as soon as that pointer goes out of scope.
Which device implementation are you using, and which version of
Audiere? Thanks.
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