http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49466
janus at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Memory leak with assignment |[4.6/4.7 Regression] Memory |of extended derived types |leak with assignment of | |extended derived types --- Comment #4 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org 2011-06-19 17:52:35 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > I see (with valgrind on x86_64-apple-darwin10) the memory leak for gcc 4.6 > (revision 166102) and trunk, but not for gcc 4.5.2 or 4.6 revision 162456. Ok, I can also reproduce the memory leak with gfortran 4.7 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, which means that it is a regression. Here is a reduced test case: program evolve_aflow implicit none type :: state_t real, allocatable :: U(:) end type state_t type, extends(state_t) :: astate_t end type astate_t type(astate_t) :: a,b allocate(a%U(1000)) b = a b = a end program In the first assignment b.U is allocated, in the second assignment it is not freed, before being allocated again. In fact, the dump does not contain a single "__builtin_free", while with 4.5 it has six. valgrind says: ==27163== 4,000 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 3 of 3 ==27163== at 0x4C2683D: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==27163== by 0x4009BC: MAIN__ (test.f90:16) ==27163== by 0x400B9D: main (test.f90:19)