Memory leak in static analysis

[Sathavahana1901]

Memory leak in heap_string

issue:
a resource leak in jsoncons/detail/heap_string.hpp at line 158.
The warning indicates that a memory resource allocated at new_allocator.h:114
was not freed, and the last reference to it was lost at heap_string.hpp:175.

actual behavior :
static code analysis(codesonar) tool reporting memory leak

expected behavior :
static code analysis(codesonar) tool report should be clean with out any bugs

run jsoncons through codesonar static analysis tool

Include a small, self-contained example if possible

What compiler, architecture, and operating system?

• Compiler: g++
• Architecture (e.g. x86, x64) x86
• Operating system: ubuntu

What jsoncons library version?

• Latest release 0.177.0

[danielaparker]

I'm quite sure that codesonar is wrong. The type heap_string is used to hold basic_json string values, and as such is the most used type in the jsoncons library. We perform memory checks for all builds, and detect no leaks. The diagnostic is wrong, there is no lost reference.