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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in python.c:do_start_initialization
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c478d49-d59a-1b58-a79e-844bd3db7fc8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170322185224.40a2a37c@ThinkPad>

On 03/22/2017 05:52 PM, Philipp Rudo wrote:

>> OK with that change.  Please push.
> 
> Shall I fix it? Or do we go with your ldirname fix?

Please push in your fix first.  It's small and obviously correct.

>> Perhaps better overall would be to make ldirname return a std::string
>> and eliminate these leaks "by design".  It'd get rid of several
>> make_cleanup calls throughout too.  I'll give that a quick try.
> 
> Or maybe combining all path handling in a 'class gdbpath'.  But
> make ldirname return std::string definitely is an advantage.

That'd be nice.  If we do that, I think we should model the API on
C++17's filesystem::path http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path , to
ease a future transition.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-22 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-22 13:11 Philipp Rudo
2017-03-22 13:11 ` [PATCH] Fix read after xfree in linux_nat_detach Philipp Rudo
2017-03-22 15:07   ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-22 17:17     ` Philipp Rudo
2017-03-22 17:26       ` Pedro Alves
2017-03-23 13:17         ` [PATCH v2] " Philipp Rudo
2017-03-23 13:42           ` Pedro Alves
     [not found]             ` <f712cd1a-cf44-44da-9bf4-3ccd407a76a0@redhat.com>
2017-04-12  8:14               ` Philipp Rudo
2017-03-22 15:19 ` [PATCH] Fix memory leak in python.c:do_start_initialization Pedro Alves
2017-03-22 17:52   ` Philipp Rudo
2017-03-22 18:45     ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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