Memory leak

[dantealmeida]

Hi,

There is a memory leak in this module, but I don't know exactly where.

I've made a script that would use just two attributes of the library:

1. The constructor
2. The "symbols" instance attribute

After inspecting thousands of binaries, python process was at 10GB of allocated memory.

I'm running Python 3.6.1 (64-bit) on CentOS 7.1.1503 and using the latest available version on pypi. Compiler is gcc 4.8.3.

[malisal]

Thank you for reporting!

Could you do four separate tests, where you re-run your script while sequentially commenting out the lines 199 - 209 of bfdpie/bfdpie.py?

The idea would be to test if any of these symbol- and reloc-fetching methods causes the leak. If the leak persists while all of them are commented out, then it narrows down the search space for the leak significantly.