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Re: [PATCH 7/7] commit-tree: free commit message before exiting

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 4, 2010, 07:55 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Even better would be to exit() instead of returning from cmd_
> functions.  Valgrind will not consider any memory that still has a
> pointer to it at exit time as a leak.

Hmm, is there a way to tell valgrind that in these functions pretend as if they left the scope by calling exit() when they return?

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Message 32 of 33 in “memory leak reported by valgrind”
  1. memory leak reported by valgrindIvan Kanis, Aug 9, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2010
  3. Erik Faye-LundAug 9, 2010
  4. Alex RiesenAug 9, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederAug 10, 2010
  6. 1/3 core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrysJonathan Nieder, Aug 10, 2010
  7. 2/3 write-tree: Avoid leak when index refers to an invalid objectJonathan Nieder, Aug 10, 2010
  8. 3/3 read-tree: stop leaking tree objectsJonathan Nieder, Aug 10, 2010
  9. 0/7 Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrindJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  10. 1/7 init: plug tiny one-time memory leakJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2010
  12. init: plug tiny one-time memory leakJonathan Nieder, Oct 4, 2010
  13. 2/7 lockfile: introduce alloc_lock_file() to avoid valgrind noiseJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  14. Andreas EricssonOct 2, 2010
  15. Jonathan NiederOct 2, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederOct 6, 2010
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2010
  19. Jonathan NiederOct 6, 2010
  20. 3/7 environment.c: remove unused variableJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  21. 4/7 setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent bufferJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  22. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 4, 2010
  23. 5/7 Introduce malloc/strdup/pathdup variants for permanent allocationsJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  24. 6/7 environment: use alloc_permanent() for computed git_dir and coJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  25. 7/7 commit-tree: free commit message before exitingJonathan Nieder, Oct 2, 2010
  26. Sverre RabbelierOct 2, 2010
  27. Jonathan NiederOct 2, 2010
  28. Sverre RabbelierOct 2, 2010
  29. Jonathan NiederOct 2, 2010
  30. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2010
  31. Jonathan NiederOct 4, 2010
  32. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2010
  33. Jonathan NiederOct 4, 2010

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