Memory leaks detected

[Wolfgang Oertl <wolfgang.oertl@...>]

Hi,

as I mentioned before, the application I'm writing grows over
time, and I haven't been able to determine why -- until now.  The
script shown below dumps all reachable memory and makes it fairly
easy to see what should have been deallocated.

Is there any memory that slips through?  It considers keys,
values and metatables of tables.

BTW my main leak was lua-sqlite-0.3, because I didn't know about
(auto)closing statements, which is not mentioned in the
documentation.

Cheers,
Wolfgang


function show_mem(tbl, path, seen)

	local show = function(k, s)
		if type(k) == 'table' and not seen[k] then
			seen[k] = true
			table.insert(path, tostring(s))
			show_mem(k, path, seen)
			table.remove(path)
		end
	end

	for k, v in pairs(tbl) do
		table.insert(path, tostring(k))
		print(table.concat(path, "."), v)
		table.remove(path)
		show(k, "KEY")
		show(v, k)
		show(getmetatable(tbl), "META")
	end
end

-- Do this before exiting your program:
-- show_mem(_G, {}, {})