Dynamically-initialized static std::string leaking by Rodarin

Thanks for looking into this. I am still concerned by this issue, since it was not present in VC8, but is in VC10. Also, I am assuming you meant that you fixed the const std::strings, not CStrings? If so, is this going to be in the next service pack?

Unfortunately, I cannot modify the actual production code where this manifests due to licensing restrictions, and disabling leak reporting is not a reasonable solution, as there are many other potential leaks that we don't want to miss.

Hello,

Thanks for the report. I have fixed the const CStrings in the MFC DLLs, so they won't show as leaking, but otherwise MFC is doing the best it can in this situation. You have memory that was allocated during your DLL initialization (before the MFC DLL was loaded), so your memory will not have been freed when the MFC DLL is unloaded (this is Windows loader behavior). So the only way to get the leaks reported accurately will be to disable MFC leak reporting (by calling AfxEnableMemoryLeakDump(FALSE) somewhere in your application) and then calling _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks() during the unloading of your DLL. You may have to implement a DLLMain in your DLL and dump the memory leaks during the DLL_DETACH_PROCESS. Or you can add something like the following to one of your CPP modules to dump leaks:

struct _DEBUG_STATE
{
    _DEBUG_STATE() {}
    ~_DEBUG_STATE() { _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks(); }
};

_DEBUG_STATE g_ds;

I added the above code to your names.cpp file, and added a call to AfxEnableMemoryLeakDump(FALSE); in CCRTTestApp::InitInstance and no leaks were reported. I hope this helps.

Pat Brenner
Visual C++ Libraries Development

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