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

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." <---- Valgrind still detects leaks.

This can be fixed if you call snd_config_update_free_global() after snd_pcm_close(handle);