----- Original Message ----- From: "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [ boost-Bugs-1520617 ]Memoryleakwhenusing boost::thread and boost::test together
It make sense to report memory leaks by default. In case if used prefer the opposite, one could use either CLA or environment variable to configure this behavior.
At least it should be documented (or print out a warning message) that memory leak detection on Windows reports false leaks sometimes (anytime boost::thread and boost::thread_specific_ptr are used). These kinds issues are very difficult and time consuming to track down and are very surprising to new users and that's why I suggested changing the default. Advanced users that want to use leak detectors should know about the limitations. Sean