From 23e314d23f0b0cb8f6ffb65048d618d539686bb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:17:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Plug a small memory leak, where we leaked 8 or 12 bytes per
 declared parameter.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@5286 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc | 8 ++++++++
 deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html         | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc b/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
index 823a184145..2c3d802578 100644
--- a/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
+++ b/deal.II/base/source/parameter_handler.cc
@@ -1076,6 +1076,14 @@ ParameterHandler::memory_consumption () const
 
 ParameterHandler::Section::~Section () 
 {
+				   // first release the memory pointed
+				   // to by the second component of
+				   // the pair, since we became owner
+				   // of that memory through the
+				   // clone() call
+  for (EntryType::iterator q=entries.begin(); q!=entries.end(); ++q)
+    delete q->second.second;
+				   // then clear entire map
   entries.clear ();
 
   std::map<std::string, Section*>::iterator p;
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html b/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html
index 5cc40a9cab..d93386b97a 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/2001/c-3-2.html
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ documentation, etc</a>.
 <h3>base</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> <p>
+       Fixed: In the <code class="class">ParameterHandler</code>
+       class, we leaked 8 or 12 bytes of memory per declared
+       parameter. This is now fixed.
+       <br>
+       (WB 2001/11/28)
+       </p>
+
   <li> <p>
        New: <code class="class">Functions::CutOffFunctionCinfty</code>,
        <code class="class">Functions::CutOffFunctionW1</code>, and
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