Haskell DLL (using FFI) causes memory leak.

[Ольга Филиппская]

It's true that one must initialize the runtime when calling Haskell from
C/C++. We do this in the real project and just a pair of calls
hs_init/hs_exit causes memory to be leaked even faster. But I tried to
construct the minimal example to describe the bug, so I reduced all the
extra-code.

пн, 27 авг. 2018 г. в 18:00, Vanessa McHale <vanessa.mchale at iohk.io>:

> I don't know about C++, but I do know that when calling Haskell from C
> code one must initialize the runtime and then exit it once finished. I also
> know that one must only initialize the runtime once over the course of the
> program's run. As far as I can tell, this does not occur in your example.
>
> On 08/27/2018 09:44 AM, Ольга Филиппская wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> *Summary: *memory is consumed without releasing when a Haskell DLL (that
> uses FFI) is loaded and unloaded in an endless loop.
>
> *Details*: I'm working on a C++ project relying on a DLL that uses
> Haskell code. The DLL was built with GHC 8.0.1 x64, OS is Windows 7. (Newer
> versions of GHC - 8.2.1 and later - do not allow you to build such DLLs due
> to some bugs: ticket #1
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14472#no2>, ticker #2
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14784#no1>). The C++ project was
> built with MSVC compiler 2015.
>
> We noticed that memory is not released when the library is unloaded. I've
> constructed a baseline example to reproduce the bug. It has three files:
> the first one is *HaskellSources.hs*(see attachments). It contains one
> foreign export function foo. This foreign export function is necessary to
> reproduce the bug. The second file is *CWrapper.cpp*. I intentionally
> didn't include any Haskell function export because they make no difference
> for this example. The last file is the code of the main program (see
> *main.cpp*) that loads the library and unloads it at once in an endless
> loop.
>
> There are two cases: whether HaskellExports.o is included into the library
> or not.
> 1. HaskellExports.o is not included into the library (see attached build
> script* build_no_hs.sh*). Everything works just fine (i.e. amount of
> memory consumed by the app is the same before DLL loading and right after
> unloading.)
> 2. HaskellExports.o is included into the library (see *build_w_hs.sh*).
> Memory is not released after unloading the DLL, after repeated load/unload
> cycles memory consumption keeps growing until finally the application
> crashes.
>
> Is this a known problem? Is it tracked in your bugtracker? (Or maybe it is
> not a problem at all and I'm doing it wrong).
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> --
> * Olga Philippskaya .*
>
>
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