From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
"gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
"gcc-patches\@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: libiberty/cplus-dem.c, ada-demangle: plug memory leak.
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5amu4tz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D712A5F.1040307__35010.4677411311$1299262072$gmane$org@vmware.com> (Michael Snyder's message of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:07:27 -0800")
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:
Michael> Are you sure? There is a path to "goto unknown" from before the
Michael> call to the alloc function. It might actually be null. Some
Michael> versions of 'free' don't like that.
This isn't an issue with free any more. Jim Meyering did some research
into it a while ago and fixed a number of popular free software projects
to remove the useless test. Here's a page with some interesting data:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 21:20 Michael Snyder
2011-03-03 21:30 ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-03-03 22:00 ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-04 9:34 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-03-04 18:07 ` Michael Snyder
[not found] ` <4D712A5F.1040307__35010.4677411311$1299262072$gmane$org@vmware.com>
2011-03-04 18:19 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-03-04 18:27 ` Michael Snyder
[not found] ` <4D712F12.8050808__11842.7885965959$1299263268$gmane$org@vmware.com>
2011-03-04 18:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 18:41 ` Jeff Law
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