RESOLVED WONTFIX 54955
Theoretical resource memory leaks in AnimationBase.cpp 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54955
Summary Theoretical resource memory leaks in AnimationBase.cpp
sangeetha.sugavanam
Reported 2011-02-22 06:41:49 PST
In method ensurePropertyMap() in AnimationBase.cpp, memory is allocated for a Vector of type PropertyWrapperBase. Unfortunately, memory is never deallocated for this. A suggestion in the code says to use a refptr and toss it once we are done using the Vector. Unfortunately, this function is being called by many other methods and because of that destroying using in a refptr in the function itself may lead to crashes. This bug needs to be further investigated.
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2011-02-22 10:42:02 PST
What's the observable effect of this? There is a FIXME in the code, but it doesn't explain why not destroying the wrappers in a problem at all.
Simon Fraser (smfr)
Comment 2 2011-02-22 11:10:32 PST
This would only count as a leak if you wanted to unload the WebCore library and expect all associated memory to go away. I don't believe that WebCore supports being unloaded on any platform.
Simon Fraser (smfr)
Comment 3 2011-02-24 22:04:19 PST
We have many of these in WebCore. We're not going to change this strategy any time soon.
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