Could someone let me know whether boost thread library leaks. It seems to me that it does: Google says that I should compile with both boost thread and pthread which I am doing and that in version 1.40 this problem has been fixed but I still get leakage. Note that this will compile fine but leaks are detected.
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/date_time.hpp>
void t1(){}
int main(void){
boost::thread th1(t1);
th1.join();
return 1;
}
With Valgrind I get the following output
HEAP SUMMARY:
==8209== in use at exit: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
==8209== total heap usage: 5 allocs, 4 frees, 388 bytes allocated
==8209==
==8209== 8 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1
==8209== at 0x4024F20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==8209== by 0x4038CCB: boost::detail::get_once_per_thread_epoch() (in /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread.so.1.42.0)
==8209== by 0x40329D4: ??? (in /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread.so.1.42.0)
==8209== by 0x4032B26: boost::detail::get_current_thread_data() (in /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread.so.1.42.0)
==8209== by 0x4033F32: boost::thread::join() (in /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread.so.1.42.0)
==8209== by 0x804E7C3: main (testboost.cpp)
==8209==
==8209== LEAK SUMMARY:
==8209== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==8209== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==8209== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==8209== still reachable: 8 bytes in 1 blocks
==8209== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
I also tried with the code listed at the following website: http://antonym.org/2009/05/threading-with-boost---part-i-creating-threads.html Still the same problem.