[cairo] memory leak in _cairo_pattern_create_solid

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 13:46 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> So what we provide is the ability for the application author to first
> clean up all references, then call cairo_debug_reset_static_data and
> if the cache finds that any objects are still referenced then there's
> definitely a bug somewhere. This seems extremely useful to me. 

This is what fontconfig does too, and it's biting us in firefox3.
Problem is, it's a vicious circle:

  - To find your application leaks, you need to get rid of fontconfig
noise, that is, call FcFini().

  - To call FcFini() successfully, you need to get rid of your
application leaks.

Same with cairo, just that cairo doesn't abuse memory like fontconfig
does, so people have a much easier time finding cairo leaks.

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