Re: [Patch] More responsive QUITs

[Sterling Augustine <saugustine@google.com>]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Sterling> New revision of the patch which addresses this issue attached.
>
> You forgot to CC the list :)
>
> Sterling> +  struct cleanup *back_to;
>
> Sterling>    list[0] = NULL;
>
> Sterling>    if (!have_full_symbols () && !have_partial_symbols ())
> Sterling>      return list;
>
> Sterling> +  back_to = make_cleanup (xfree, list);
>
> This captures 'list' at this point in time, but list can be reallocated.
> See add_filename_to_list.

Will work on a fix for this.

> Also, each element of list is itself mallocd and so must be freed.

The calling function (completer.c:308 and below) doesn't free the
individual elements either, so there is a more general gdb leak. I'll
fix both.

Sterling