[Lazarus] LHelp memory leak

Andrey Sobol andrey.sobol.nn at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 17:27:56 CET 2021


Hello,

I have tested with FPC 3.2.1, FPC trunc and Lazarus trunc
I don`t see any leaks.

P.S. The leaks checking I have an enabled always. I spent many time for 
  a fixing leaks :)
Andrey.

On 15.02.2021 14:36, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
> I finally configured LHelp as a CHM help viewer in my development Lazarus.
> I downloaded Marco's CHM snapshots linked here:
> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,52437.0.html 
> <https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,52437.0.html>
> There are 2 updates from Andrey Sobol. I downloaded them, too.
> LHelp opens correctly, although slowly for the first time.
> There is a strange flicker. First an empty window shows up, then it 
> disappears. A little later the actual help window with contents shows.
> Anyway, then it works well and the documentation itself has improved, 
> too. Nice!
> 
> When I close LHelp, it asks if I really want to do it. Yes, I want it.
> Then LHelp leaks memory. See below.
> IIRC it does not leak when I start it standalone. It is caused by the 
> IDE integration.
> Andrey Sobol and everybody who develops LHelp, please use the Debug 
> buildmode I added there some time ago. All debug flags should be on when 
> developing code.
> 
> I tested with Linux 64-bit. IDE is built with LCL-QT5, I guess the same 
> is used for LHelp.
> 
> Juha
> 


-- 
Andrey


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