Re: memory leakage in vc++ 6.0

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:16:12 +0200
Message-ID:
<23bil3-gsv.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
sirisha wrote:

am trying to develop an application to transfer a folder of files
using sockets.


rsync and possibly FTP already do that, why reinvent the wheel?

        bWorking=finder.FindFile(_T((LPCTSTR)findFilePath));


What the hell are you doing here? You shouldn't be casting things around
like this and the _T macro should only be used in combination with string
literals....

                                long fileSize;


long is not long enough. Further, you could use the win32 API to get the
size of the file in a much more elegant way.

fileContentBuffer = (char*)calloc(32,sizeof(long));


Use static_cast.

if(returnValue == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
    cout<<endl<<"Error in Sending File Length";
    CloseSocket();
    return;
}
else
    cout<<endl<<"File Size Sent Successfully : "<<fileSize;
free(fileContentBuffer);


In case of an error, you fail to release allocated storage. You should
research the RAII idiom of C++ (or use std::vector right away).

Uli

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