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Benjamin
Benjamin

Reputation: 1253

SDL Events Memory Leak

Are there any know methods or functions in SDL known to cause memory leaks?

I noticed for my program that as time when on, .1 MB of memory kept on being tacked onto the program's memory usage (ie. an extra '.4 MB' were added in exactly 3 minutes).

I commented out all of my surface drawing/bliting functions; pretty much just isolated the main game loop to the event structure and screen flipping, ex:

// .. Intilize
char quit = 0;
Uint8* keystate = NULL;
SDL_Event hEvent;
while (!quit) 
{
    // .. Code

    while (SDL_PollEvents(&hVvent)) {
        keystate = SDL_GetKeystate(NULL);
        // .. Event processing
    }

    // .. More Code

    if (SDL_Flip(screen) == -1)
        return 1

    SDL_Delay(1);
}   
// .. Cleanup

Upvotes: 3

Views: 546

Answers (2)

Gino
Gino

Reputation: 11

valgrind --track-origins=yes --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes ./executable

Upvotes: 1

Quetzy Garcia
Quetzy Garcia

Reputation: 1840

My favourite tool to check for memory leaks is Valgrind. After compiling your code, just run the following command:

valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes ./executable

After finishing, check the output for memory leak information. The tool can be more verbose, by issuing the -v flag

Upvotes: 1

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