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Re: Memory leak a "fix" for stable tree?
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Larry Jones |
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Re: Memory leak a "fix" for stable tree? |
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:02:30 -0400 (EDT) |
Derek Robert Price writes:
>
> Just wondering if anyone had an opinion on this. I have a six or seven
> line fix for a memory leak (usually only a few bytes leak, and not more
> than what has already been allocated for argv) that I'm getting ready to
> commit to the feature branch. Is that a valid fix for the stable tree,
> or are we only fixing errors that cause user-perceivable problems there?
I'd say it's a valid fix for the stable tree, provided it's a valid fix
at all -- I'm pretty sure I've run the whole test suite under Purify
without it reporting any leaks.
-Larry Jones
I think we need to change the rules. -- Calvin