id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
598	Explicitly delete registered converter chains	kbluck	david_abrahams	"{{{
While working with boost.python, I've noted that
instantiating most specializations of
boost::python::extract<> results in MSVC leak reports.
My usual tactic for third-party libraries in such cases
is to suppress the CRT tracking for the affected code.
This is how I deal with the abundant ""leaks"" from
Python due to not calling Py_Finalize(), for example.
In this case, though, the allocations are pre-main()
and I can't get a suppression hook in ahead of it.

I realize that these aren't true leaks, and that there
is some reluctance to ferret out such situations at the
moment due to the lack of support for Py_Finalize(),
but this generates a *lot* of leak reports and makes it
very difficult to recognize true leaks. It was actually
making me consider not using extract<> at all.

I realized that was an overreaction, so instead I added
a destructor for struct
boost::python::converter::registration that explicitly
walks and deletes the singly-linked list nodes
contained therein. This resolved my current flurry of
extract<>-related leak reports.
}}}"	Patches	closed		python USE GITHUB	None		Accepted