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From: msnyder@sonic.net
To: "Jim Blandy" <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] solib_open, memory leak
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9351.12.7.175.2.1186684646.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hcn9isrk.fsf@codesourcery.com>

>
> msnyder@sonic.net writes:
>> [Jim:]
>>> The code clearly deserves a comment like:
>>>
>>>     /* We try to find the library in various ways.  After each
>>>        attempt, either found_file >= 0 and temp_pathname is a malloc'd
>>>        string, or found_file < 0 and temp_pathname does not point to
>>>        storage that needs to be freed.  */
>>>
>>> In that light, it seems clearer to me to just put:
>>>
>>>    if (found_file < 0)
>>>      temp_pathname = NULL;
>>>    else
>>>      temp_pathname = xstrdup (temp_pathname);
>>>
>>> immediately after the open, to make it obvious that the rule is
>>> followed there.
>>>
>> [...]
>>> Don't you want those new lines to replace the two that followed them,
>>> not just precede them?
>>
>> Yes, thanks.  How about this?
>
> Poifect.

Committed.



      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05  3:17 msnyder
2007-08-06 22:28 ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-06 22:39   ` Kevin Buettner
2007-08-08 18:29   ` msnyder
2007-08-08 21:46     ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-08 21:58       ` msnyder
2007-08-08 22:08         ` Jim Blandy
2007-08-09 18:37           ` msnyder [this message]

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