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

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:46:43PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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
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