From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: fix minor memory leak in symfile.c
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080918010418.GC3651@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221433676.17278.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> When I added that use of asprintf, I checked that libiberty provides it
> if the underlying OS doesn't. I thought we could use anything covered by
> libiberty. Maybe not?
Not sure. I don't think that it is a portability issue, but rather
to provide an interface where any issues causes an error to be thrown.
That way, no need to check the pointer returned, nor the status code,
and thus it's not possible to forget. I think it's the same as xmalloc.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-13 17:00 Tom Tromey
2008-09-13 17:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-13 17:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-13 17:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-09-13 22:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-13 22:53 ` Tom Tromey
2008-09-13 23:04 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-13 23:47 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-14 23:09 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-09-15 0:06 ` Tom Tromey
2008-09-18 1:04 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-09-18 2:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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