* print expr or eval expr and memory usage
@ 2011-02-15 19:58 Benedikt Penner
2011-02-15 20:06 ` Tom Tromey
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From: Benedikt Penner @ 2011-02-15 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb
Hi at all,
i have a little question to you.
If i use "print expr" to execute a non void function which for example returns a char *, what happens with the allocated memory? Do i have to free it using gdb?
Thanks a lot!
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* Re: print expr or eval expr and memory usage
2011-02-15 19:58 print expr or eval expr and memory usage Benedikt Penner
@ 2011-02-15 20:06 ` Tom Tromey
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From: Tom Tromey @ 2011-02-15 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benedikt Penner; +Cc: gdb
>>>>> "Benedikt" == Benedikt Penner <benedikt.penner@gmx.de> writes:
Benedikt> If i use "print expr" to execute a non void function which for
Benedikt> example returns a char *, what happens with the allocated
Benedikt> memory? Do i have to free it using gdb?
gdb doesn't automatically free anything. So, if your function mallocs
some memory and expects the caller to free it, and you care about this,
then you must free it by calling free from gdb.
Tom
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