alsa - mem leak?

Question

I\'ve been chasing a memory leak (reported by \'valgrind --leak-check=yes\') and it appears to be coming from ALSA. This code has been in the free world for some time so I\'

Answer 1

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=MEMORY-LEAK;hb=HEAD says:

                          Memory leaks - really?
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Note that some developers are thinking that the ALSA library has some memory leaks. Sure, it can be truth, but before contacting us, please, be sure that these leaks are not forced.

The biggest reported leak is that the global configuration is cached for next usage. If you do not want this feature, simply, call snd_config_update_free_global() after all snd_*_open*() calls. This function will free the cache.