[Dcmlib] Re: ptotential memory leak without virtual destructor.

[jean-michel.rouet at philips.com]

>> In gdcmFile.cxx, pixelConverter is created by new without delete to 
clean up.
>> the codes like following:
>>
>> PixelConverter = new PixelConvert;  //LEAK !
>>
>>  is it  intentional or faces some challenging?
>
>When I tried to delete it in the dtor the nightly tests fails...
>

Mathieu,

Does it fail with all the images from gdcmData or only with few of them ? 
I'm just suggesting that the problem can come from a buffer overrun 
somewhere in PixelConvert when for an image PixelDataLength > 
DecompressedSize...

I'll try to revert the delete in the destructor and see what purify finds.
JM
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