From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 12 16:27:56 2004
From: Albert Astals Cid <astals11 () terra ! es>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:27:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Kcontrol memory leak
Message-Id: <200407121827.56557.astals11 () terra ! es>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=108970771724376

Hi, don't know if you remember that thread 
http://lists.kde.org/?t=107463750200003&r=1&w=2 where it told that each time 
const KAboutData* AccessibilityConfig::aboutData() const was called over a 
kcontrol module it leaked the KAboutData as most of the modules did a new 
KAboutData on each call, i presented a patch that took care of that in the 
kcontrol level, but it was rejected as there where some kcontrol modules that 
returned a static or class member so deleting it was wrong.

Today i have looked at the problem and it is still there so i have spent the 
morning going though all the kcontrol modules in the cvs and ensuring they 
return a class member in that call so there is no memory leaked.

I do not attach the patch as it is quite big and it basically adds a private 
KAboutData *mAbout; that is initialized in the constructor and deleted in the 
destructor and returned in the said call.

Can i commit the changes?

Albert.