diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 69582455..0bd1b986 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 - disable chroma subsample in jpeg-tiff if Q >= 90
 - try to handle tiffs with old-style 8-bit colormaps
 - rename vipsthumbnail -o as -f, -o stays as a hidden flag
+- fix some small leaks
 
 24/12/14 started 7.42.1
 - add gobject-2.0 to Requires: in vips and vips-cpp .pc files
diff --git a/libvips/draw/draw_flood.c b/libvips/draw/draw_flood.c
index 135b1076..8f5f5029 100644
--- a/libvips/draw/draw_flood.c
+++ b/libvips/draw/draw_flood.c
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ typedef struct _Buffer {
 	Scan scan[PBUFSIZE];
 } Buffer;
 
-/* What we track during a flood. We have this in a separet struct so that we
+/* What we track during a flood. We have this in a separate struct so that we
  * can support vips__draw_flood_direct() ... a fast path for 
- * vips_labelregions() taht avoids all of the GObject call overhead. This
+ * vips_labelregions() that avoids all of the GObject call overhead. This
  * gives a huge speedup, >x10 in many cases.
  */
 typedef struct _Flood {
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ buffer_free( Buffer *buf )
 /* Add a scanline to a buffer, prepending a new buffer if necessary. Return
  * the new head buffer.
  */
-static inline Buffer * 
+static Buffer * 
 buffer_add( Buffer *buf, Flood *flood, int x1, int x2, int y, int dir )
 {
 	/* Clip against image size.
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ buffer_add( Buffer *buf, Flood *flood, int x1, int x2, int y, int dir )
  * whether we are flooding to the edge boundary or flooding edge-coloured
  * pixels. p is a pel in @test. 
  */
-static inline gboolean
+static gboolean
 flood_connected( Flood *flood, VipsPel *p )
 {
  	int j;
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ flood_connected( Flood *flood, VipsPel *p )
 
 /* Is p painted? p is a pel in @image. 
  */
-static inline gboolean
+static gboolean
 flood_painted( Flood *flood, VipsPel *p )
 {
  	int j;
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ flood_painted( Flood *flood, VipsPel *p )
 	return( j == flood->psize );
 }
 
-static inline void
+static void
 flood_pel( Flood *flood, VipsPel *q )
 {
  	int j;
@@ -491,8 +491,7 @@ vips_draw_flood_build( VipsObject *object )
 	if( flood.equal ) {
 		/* Edge is set by colour of the start pixel in @test.
 		 */
-		if( !(flood.edge = 
-			(VipsPel *) im_malloc( object, flood.tsize )) ) 
+		if( !(flood.edge = VIPS_ARRAY( object, flood.tsize, VipsPel )) )
 			return( -1 );
 		memcpy( flood.edge, 
 			VIPS_IMAGE_ADDR( flood.test, 
@@ -651,8 +650,7 @@ vips__draw_flood_direct( VipsImage *image, VipsImage *test,
 	flood.top = y;
 	flood.bottom = y;
 
-	if( !(flood.edge = 
-		(VipsPel *) im_malloc( image, flood.tsize )) ) 
+	if( !(flood.edge = VIPS_ARRAY( image, flood.tsize, VipsPel )) )
 		return( -1 );
 	memcpy( flood.edge, 
 		VIPS_IMAGE_ADDR( test, x, y ), flood.tsize );