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From: msnyder@sonic.net
To: msnyder@sonic.net
Cc: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	msnyder@sonic.net,         gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] c-exp.y, memory leak
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19531.12.7.175.2.1187393323.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5061.12.7.175.2.1186784974.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net>

>>> Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:51:09 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: msnyder@sonic.net
>>>
>>> 2007-08-04  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@access-company.com>
>>>
>>> 	* c-exp.y (parse_number): Memory leak.
>>
>> Shouldn't this use xfree()?
>
> Actually, although arguably they should -- I'm not so sure.
>
> It's kind of a mess -- c-exp.y uses malloc, and then Makefile.in
> runs sed on c-exp.c to transform malloc to xmalloc.  No such sed
> transform is done to convert free to xfree, and there is at least
> one other call to free in there that does not get converted.
>
> I'm reluctant to mess with the sed scripts.  "free" is just too
> common a string.

Alright -- I'm going to commit this using "free" rather than
"xfree", on the premise that the file already calls free once,
and doesn't call xfree at all.



      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-17 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05  1:51 msnyder
2007-08-05 18:52 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-08-05 22:08   ` Michael Snyder
2007-08-10 22:29   ` msnyder
2007-08-17 23:28     ` msnyder [this message]

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