code that shows the leak

tidy_test.rb (text/plain), 398 bytes, created by Mike Doty (RETIRED) on 2007-06-23 05:10:53 UTC

require 'tidy'

Tidy.path = '/usr/lib/libtidy.so'


class Tidybuf
  def to_a
    str = to_s.split("\r\n")
    str
  end
end

tidy_obj = Tidy.new

tidy_lib = Tidylib.create
err_buf = Tidybuf.new
out_buf = Tidybuf.new

rc = Tidylib.set_error_buffer(tidy_lib, err_buf.struct)

text = "<b>foo</b><i>your mom<b></i></b>"

last_gc = Time::now
loop do
  tidy_obj.clean(text)
end