Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
- Subject: Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:46:44 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research
On 7/8/08 6:29 PM, Jonathan del Strother said:
>I have a framework which is tested with otest. On exit, we test for
>leaks, using much the same methodology as here -
>http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/xcode/2008/5/26/21885
>
>The results are a bit random. It quite often misses leaks, only to
>find them again in the next test run, despite having purposefully
>introduced leaks that are quite clearly always present.
Is your code GC only? If so, know that 'leaks' does not work reliably:
it returns a vast number of false positives.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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