Another iPhone - CGBitmapContextCreateImage Leak

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I\'m having a similar problem. The pointer from the malloc in create_bitmap

Answer 1

It looks like the problem is that you are releasing a pointer to the returned CGImage, rather than the CGImage itself. I too was having similar issues before with continual growing allocations and an eventual app crash. I addressed it by allocating a CGImage rather than a CGImageRef. After the changes run your code in Insturments with allocations, and you should not see anymore perpetual memory consumption from malloc. As well if you use the class method imageWithCGImage you will not have to worry about autoreleasing your UIImage later on.

I typed this on a PC so if you drop it right into XCode you may have syntax issue, I appologize in advance; however the principal is sound.

CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); 
CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, blah blah blah); 
CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);

// ... draw into context  

CGImage cgImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context); 
UIImage * image = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgImage];  
CGImageRelease(cgImage); 
CGContextRelease(context);
return image;