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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: msnyder@sonic.net, bug-readline@gnu.org,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,         chet@case.edu
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] Re: PATCH: readline/histexpand.c, resource leak
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C7528D.2000002@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d4xpr7i7.fsf@codesourcery.com>

Jim Blandy wrote:
> It seems to me that 'words' is a malloc'ed array of malloc'ed strings,
> so 'free (words)' still leaks storage.

I don't believe there's a case where wind == -1 and any malloced strings
exist in words[].  There's no leak unless that can happen.

Chet

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-18 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-01  2:14 msnyder
2007-08-10 21:32 ` msnyder
2007-08-15  0:01 ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-15  0:38   ` msnyder
2007-08-15  1:20     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-15  1:40       ` msnyder
2007-08-15 21:43     ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-18 20:12   ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2007-08-18 20:15     ` [Bug-readline] " msnyder
2007-08-20 17:03     ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-22  2:02       ` Chet Ramey

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