Hi Glen, Thanks for reporting this problem. Now fixed in the CVS version. Rene Brun Glen R. Salo wrote: > > Hi Rooters! > > I have two questions for TGeometry. > > 1. I have a need to Clone a TGeometry object. However, the manner in > which I use it is giving me a memory leak. I've included a simple > example of my problem below. Can someone inform me what I'm doing > wrong (as I did not expect the following script to cause a memory > leak)? (I am running the latest CVS version of ROOT on RedHat 7.1). > > void gTest() { > > TFile f("na49.root"); > TGeometry *g = (TGeometry *)f.Get("na49"); > Int_t i=0; > TGeometry *g2; > > // Memory leak occurs when I do something like the following: > while (i++ < 4) { > g2 = (TGeometry *)g->Clone(); > delete g2; > } > > } > > 2. The destructor for TGeometry appears to have a potential memory leak > to me. The destructor has as its first line of code, > > if (!fMaterials) return; > > However, since it is possible to generate a TStructure without a > Materials list, it would appear that the fMatrices, fShapes, etc, > lists internal to TGeometry would not be deleted when no materials are > defined. Am I intrepreting this correctly? > > Thanks for your help, > > Glen > > ********************************************************************* > > Glen R. Salo gsalo@mrcstl.com > Mission Research Corporation (314)236-5007 > 1001 Craig Road, Suite 330 (314)872-2170 Fax > St. Louis, MO 63146 > > *********************************************************************
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