Well, thanks for asking that question. It made me think. I guessed it might be a leak because the memory being utilised seemed to be increasing the longer I ran it, but in an unpredictable way.

However, Valgrind gives the following, but it doesn't particularly seem to depend on any segment of code: 


==2576== LEAK SUMMARY:
==2576==    definitely lost: 731,689 bytes in 54,909 blocks
==2576==    indirectly lost: 68,896 bytes in 2,326 blocks
==2576==      possibly lost: 37,769,458 bytes in 52,844 blocks
==2576==    still reachable: 78,109,700 bytes in 547,738 blocks
==2576==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==2576== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not
+ shown.
==2576== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=
+all
==2576== 
==2576== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==2576== ERROR SUMMARY: 2610 errors from 2610 contexts (suppressed: 1 
+from 1)
image@iExam_SD_0003:~/Documents/Endoscopia$

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as it gives a similar dump to this even when I do ctrl-c immediately on start-up.

Regards

Steve

In reply to Re^2: Detecting memory leaks. by Steve_BZ
in thread Detecting memory leaks. by Steve_BZ

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