Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
- Subject: Re: 'leaks' tool is inconsistent under otest
- From: "Jonathan del Strother" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:02:42 +0100
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Sean McBride <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Nope, we don't use any GC yet.
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