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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce leaky().

From
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date
Jun 26, 2008, 21:33 UTC
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<20080626213304.GA22111@artemis.madism.org>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:46:43PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> The user would also need to worry about not freeing the original
> allocation pointer when something is realloc(3)ed, which means either
> finding the last realloc(3) of the object (that is logically the same, but
> just being extended) and mark the pointer as leaky() after that realloc,
> or unregister the original pointer from leaks before calling realloc and
> register what comes back.  It will easily get messy.
  Hmm indeed, maybe it isn't such a good idea then.
> By the way, the series queued in your repository still has "s/pring/print/"
> typo in 4/7 and "argv not NULL terminated" comment in 6/7.
  I'll fix that and pushed again, without the leaky() series dependency
(I've put in a comment that I'm aware that it's a leak), and with the
two fixes you mention done.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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Message 8 of 9 in “[RFC] leaky()”
  1. Pierre HabouzitJun 24, 2008
  2. 1/2 Introduce leaky().Pierre Habouzit, Jun 24, 2008
  3. 2/2 git-rev-parse: use leaky().Pierre Habouzit, Jun 24, 2008
  4. Pierre HabouzitJun 24, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiJun 24, 2008
  6. Pierre HabouzitJun 24, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2008
  8. Pierre HabouzitJun 26, 2008
  9. Jan HudecJul 22, 2008

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