Memory Leak in setlocale

I tested in Purify+ - it does not show the leak in setlocale. It always finds a reason to complain, but I get the same report with setlocale in the code and without it.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
#include <time.h>
 
int main()
{
	time_t ltime;
	struct tm *testime;
	unsigned char locstr[100];
 
	setlocale(LC_ALL, "italian");
	time(&ltime);
	testime = gmtime(&ltime);
 
	if(!strftime((char *)locstr, 100, "%#x", (const struct tm *)testime))
 
		printf("strftime failed!\n");
 
	else
		printf("In Italian locale, strftime returns \"%s\"\n", locstr);
 
	setlocale(LC_ALL, "french");
	time(&ltime);
	testime = gmtime(&ltime);
 
	if(!strftime((char *)locstr, 100, "%#x", (const struct tm *)testime))
		printf("strftime failed!\n");
 
	else
		printf("In French locale, strftime returns \"%s\"\n", locstr);
 
	setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
	time(&ltime);
	testime = gmtime(&ltime);
 
	printf("Back to default...\n");
	if(!strftime((char *)locstr, 100, "%#x", (const struct tm *)testime))
		printf("strftime failed!\n");
 
	else
		printf("In 'C' locale, strftime returns \"%s\"\n", locstr);
 
	return 0;
}

                                              

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It is in VS 2005 SP1

Since my project is also in VS2005 with SP1. Then why dev partner tool is showing the memory leak.

I will check soon with the BoundChecker.

Try to comment this line with the setlocale and check. I think you will see the same leak.

I already tried it. When i comment this line there is no memory leak in file  ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\crt\src\wsetloca.c""

Looks like: setlocale(LC_ALL, "");  in the end is the fix.

Here you can find more info: http://binglongx.spaces.live.com/blog/

Actually Microsoft says that there is a leak and it is fixed in VS2008. One MVP here:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VC/microsoft.public.vc.stl/2005-02/0058.html

says that it does not happen in VS 7.1.

Here is a guy saying that the detection time is wrong: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.stl/msg/337756da516a8a43?pli=1

free memory happens a bit later.

Here is even a screenshort from the BoundChecker:  http://www.codeguru.com/FORUM/showthread.php?t=472654

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <crtdbg.h>
#include <locale.h>

int _tmain()

{

    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

    _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();

}

This code didn't show the leak.

we don't call LC_ALL as it breaks SQLite3 by replacing the '.' in floats/DATEs with a ',' in some languages.
I am using SQLite3 database.

It is confirmed that in VS2008 this issue is fixed. Not in VS 2005.

Is there any other way to get rid of this memory leak.

One more question related to memory leak:
Some memory leaks come in debug build but not in release build. Does it mean that when we ship our application (release build) then these memory leaks will not come?

Leak is the leak. If you use different source code, different libraries for the debug and release configurations, ..., everything's possible.

But better do not hope that the release version does not have a leak if the debug does.

The release is much smaller then the debug. So the leak can make a trouble later.

I've tested the code with setlocale I posted in my first comments with the latest BoundChecker (9.0.2) - no leaks.

I tried with Release build its not showing me memory leak but in debug build its showing with VS2005.

Please find the code:

void CNL::SynchronizeLocales()
{
      /
      _tsetlocale(LC_COLLATE,      _T(""));
      _tsetlocale(LC_CTYPE,      _T(""));
      _tsetlocale(LC_TIME,      _T(""));
      _tsetlocale(LC_MONETARY,_T(""));

}