[petsc-dev] threadcomm memory leak

[Barry Smith]

On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Ok, then the destructor called by the MPI_Comm_del() would decrease the reference count by one and if it gets to zero then does the delete as usual.
> 
> This is exactly what is done, but PETSC_COMM_WORLD and PETSC_COMM_SELF outlive PetscFinalize, so we remove one more reference count for each of those so that it actually gets collected.

   But Shri indicated there is a possible problem, what is that problem? Or is there none?

   Barry