bug#56462: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Memory leak in ns_draw_relief

[Daniel Martín]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:
>
>> I ran the Leaks tool with Emacs 29, and I've found a memory leak in the
>> NS version of Emacs.
>>
>> Since commit c7b48b61d08f0b6a08584080badc60fe62ba1db1, in function
>> ns_draw_relief, static local variables baseCol and lightCol are assigned
>> to nil separately to their declaration.  That has the subtle consequence
>> that the further down calls to [baseCol release] and [lightCol release]
>> become a no-op, so each time ns_draw_relief is called it leaks some
>> instances of NSColor.
>>
>> The fix is to revert to the previous way those static variables were
>> declared.
>>
>> I've attached a patch with the correction.  With this fix, the leaks
>> tool doesn't report the NSColor leaks anymore when I play around with
>> Emacs 29.
>
> Thanks.  But I think the use of static variables there is rather ugly,
> and it would be much nicer if we replicated the `x_setup_relief_color'
> logic there.
>
> Do you want to work on that, or should I?

Thanks, I can give it a try.