[reportlab-users] Memory Leak in rl_accel.c

[Robin Becker]

In article <OFB37FAD3A.6A18A88A-ON41256D01.0059FA72@ubitrade.com>,
amaury.forgeotdarc@ubitrade.com writes
>Hello,
>
>While trying to embed the PDF generator into our application, I noticed
>a slow increase of the memory usage: approx. 15Mb for 1000 pages,
>even after the documents are saved and closed.
>

>Investigations showed that there is a memory leak in the
>fp_str function which is rewritten in C,
>in the rl_accel.c source.
>
>I am not a Python/C API expert, but on line 470:
>        if((pD=PyNumber_Float(pD))) d = PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE(pD);
>PyNumber_Float returns a new reference which lacks a Py_DECREF,
>which I simply add some lines later.
>This seems to correct the problem.
>
>Has someone noticed this before?
>What is the process to correct this problem?
>
I think we must have noticed this before. At my line 470 I have

        if((pD=PyNumber_Float(pD))){
                d = PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE(pD);
                Py_DECREF(pD);
                }

these seem to have been changed in version 1.31 somewhen about 20030105
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>Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
>
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