[Ace-users] [ciao-users] Memory Leak?

[Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA)]

CIAO VERSION: 0.6.1 (SVN HEAD Also)

If you look at the following header file:
CIAO/DAnCE/Deployment/NodeApp_CB_Impl.h
 
Class NodeApplication_Callback_Impl
{
    /// Get the containing POA.  This operation does *not* increase
    /// the reference count of the POA.
    virtual PortableServer::POA_ptr _default_POA (void);
};

Note that the documentation above say that the reference count is not
increased.

If you look at the cpp file, you'll find the following implementation:
 
PortableServer::POA_ptr
CIAO::NodeApplication_Callback_Impl::_default_POA (void)
{
  return PortableServer::POA::_duplicate ( this->poa_.in ());
}

The implementation lies, and does increase the reference count. If the
user of this code does follow the comment and not decrease the reference
count, then we have a memory leak. If some places decrease while others
don't, if we modify the cpp implementation, we run into problems.

Thanks,
Abdul