Re: fixing memory leaks

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi Roland,

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:28, Roland Illig wrote:
> I'm currently trying to find and fix some memory leaks. That's rather 
> difficult because there are many function taking a "char *" argument 
> when a "const char *" would have sufficed. Additionally, it is not 
> always clear where the memory should be freed.

> declaration example:
> /*new*/ char *g_strdup(/*in*/ const char *);
> 
> function call example:
> char *s = /*new*/ g_strdup("foo");

Although I appreciate the effort towards code cleanup I am not sure if
it's a good idea to commit such comments to CVS. Partially because the
code might look very cluttered (maybe I am overestimating this), and
more importantly the fact that it might heavily interfere with existing
but uncommitted patches.

How much of the freeing and mallocing is done spanning multiple source
files? This kind of auditing could be done using local copies with the
comments added. Just keep a list of what has been audited.

If you want to do this in CVS maybe it's a good idea to wait until
bugzilla has been cleaned up a bit more before introducing such comments
into the code. By the way, do you want to add those temporarily or
permanently?

Leonard.

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