Bug 55521

Summary:	GObject derived types do not chain finalize methods to their parent class
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Glenn Rice <glennricster>
Component:	glib frontend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Glenn Rice 2012-10-02 02:10:17 UTC

The PopplerPage and PopplerDocument types, which are subclassed from a GObject, override the finalize methods, but do not properly call the parent classes finalize method at the end as they should.

Comment 1 Glenn Rice 2012-10-05 19:26:18 UTC

I have noticed that there are other gobject derived classes that also do not properly chain up the finalize method to the parent classes.  For example the PopplerFontInfo class does not do this either.  However, some do.  For example PopplerAttachment does.

Not calling the parent classes finalize method is a potential memory leak.  This also prevents some registered callbacks from being called at destruction time as needed.

Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2012-10-06 08:31:05 UTC

Fixed in master and 0.20 branch. Thanks for reporting.

Comment 3 Glenn Rice 2012-10-06 15:58:12 UTC

Thank you.  Looks good.  By the way, I found this while attempting to wrap the poppler-glib library via gmmproc.  I will make the resulting poppler-glibmm available at some point.

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