Cleanup global memory allocations on shutdown. (#4731)

Co-authored-by: Jay Kwak <82421531+jkwak-work@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/slang.h b/include/slang.h
index 6fd6da7b2..849532fc8 100644
--- a/include/slang.h
+++ b/include/slang.h
@@ -5351,6 +5351,14 @@ Returns nullptr if there isn't an embedded stdlib.
 */
 SLANG_API ISlangBlob* slang_getEmbeddedStdLib();
 
+
+/* Cleanup all global allocations used by Slang, to prevent memory leak detectors from
+ reporting them as leaks. This function should only be called after all Slang objects
+ have been released. No other Slang functions such as `createGlobalSession`
+ should be called after this function.
+ */
+SLANG_EXTERN_C SLANG_API void slang_shutdown();
+
 namespace slang
 {
     inline SlangResult createGlobalSession(
@@ -5358,6 +5366,7 @@ namespace slang
     {
         return slang_createGlobalSession(SLANG_API_VERSION, outGlobalSession);
     }
+    inline void shutdown() { slang_shutdown(); }
 }
 
 /** @see slang::ICompileRequest::getProgram