Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:26:45 -0500

Personally, I'd never consider trying to unload libCom or libca.
Neither was designed with this in mind.

For example.  With libCom the errlog thread is never stopped.  And libca
registers a function pointer using epicsAtExit().  So if libca is
unloaded, then running epicsExit() will fail.

There are also a number of one-time allocations which aren't cleaned up.

On 02/23/2017 03:50 AM, Carsten Winkler wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> when your project (e.g. LabVIEW) uses dynamic loading and unloading of
> channel access classes your main class will sometimes (at 64 bit nearly
> always) crush with a segmentation fault. The reason seems to be missing
> free() and delete functions in EPICS Base 3.14.12.6 (I'm sure this
> applies also to other EPICS Base versions).
> 
> I wrote a tiny test case to check it and it would be great to get any
> advise to solve the issue.
> 
> Best regards
> Carsten
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System