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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [gdb/symtab] Simplify memory management in parse_macro_definition
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:07:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91690c44-2946-4413-be8d-9f94b8435641@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240626063233.19408-1-tdevries@suse.de>

On 6/26/24 2:32 AM, Tom de Vries wrote:
> I noticed that parse_macro_definition does malloc and free, both for the
> argv array and its elements.
> 
> Make memory management simpler by introducing a new class
> vector_c_string (copied from temporary_macro_definition here [1]) that uses an
> std::vector for the argv array.

Is there a reason to keep using C strings here, instead of a let's say,
a vector of std::string?  I gave it a quick try, I have something that
builds, just need to test and polish it.

Here is it if you want to take a peek: https://review.lttng.org/c/binutils-gdb/+/13009

Simon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-24 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-26  6:32 Tom de Vries
2024-07-24 14:46 ` [PING] " Tom de Vries
2024-07-24 16:07 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2024-07-24 16:12   ` Tom de Vries
2024-07-29 16:13     ` Tom de Vries
2024-07-29 16:28       ` Simon Marchi

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