Memory leak in string class

Question

We have developed our application in Solaris 10 environment. While running Purify on that it shows leak in the string class. This leak is incremental and so process size keeps in increasing. If we replace string with char array, the leaks disappears and process size also becomes stable.
Following is the snapshot of the memory leak stack reported by Purify:
MLK: 4505 bytes leaked in 85 blocks
* This memory was allocated from:
malloc [rtlib.o]
operator new(unsigned) [libCrun.so.1]
void*operator new(unsigned) [rtlib.o]
__rwstd::__string_ref<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >*std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::__getRep(unsigned,unsigned) [libCstd.so.1]
char*std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::replace(unsigned,unsigned,const char*,unsigned,unsigned,unsigned) [libCstd.so.1]
std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >&std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >::operator=(const char*) [libCstd.so.1]
Has anyone faced this problem earlier or is there any patch available for this?

Answer 1

Over time, we have found and fixed memory leaks in the C++ runtime libraries.
Get the latest patches for the compiler you are using. (You didn't say which one.) You can find all patches here:
[http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/patches/index.jsp]
Also get the latest Solaris patch for the C++ runtime libraries, listed on the same web page.
If that doesn't fix the problem, please file a bug report at
[http://bugs.sun.com]
with a test case that can be compiled and run to demonstrate the problem.