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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, pmuldoon@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] Prompt memory management/cleanups
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107201543.12940.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc0puiro.fsf@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 20 July 2011 15:30:19, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> s = get_prompt (0)
> set_prompt (s, 0)
> 
> Without that check, 'PROMPT (level)' would be freed, but 's' points to
> that.  So you set garbage.   get_prompt returns a pointer, not a copy.

I'm probably missing something, but isn't it just
a matter of instead of having:

+       xfree (PROMPT (level));
+       PROMPT (level) =  xstrdup (s);

you have:

+		 char *newp = xstrdup (s);
+       xfree (PROMPT (level));
+       PROMPT (level) = newp;

?

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20 13:46 Phil Muldoon
2011-07-20 14:30 ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-20 14:37   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-07-20 15:01     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-07-20 15:06       ` Phil Muldoon
2011-07-20 15:15         ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-20 15:45           ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-20 16:04             ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-20 16:06               ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-20 15:05 ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-20 15:21   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-07-20 15:35     ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-21 17:15   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-07-21 20:42     ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-22 13:26       ` Phil Muldoon

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