[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#988417: dcmtk: Memory leak in OFCharacterEncoding::selectEncoding

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi Jörg,

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:40 PM Jörg Riesmeier <debian at riesmeier.de> wrote:
>
> > The DCMTK library seems to leaves memory around after the end of the
> > process.
>
> Thank you for the report. I talked to the co-developer who introduced support for ICU to the DCMTK. He pointed me to the following discussion on ICU:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/icu/mailman/icu-support/thread/51379D6E.50601%40gmail.com/#msg30567926

Thanks for the reference !

> It seems that one solution would be to compiled ICU with --enable-auto-cleanup.

That seems to be one solution.

I see that people also directly called the cleanup API directly, eg:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890127
-> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c77439f57dfc