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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc sect
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section. |
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Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:17:16 -0400 |
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Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden>:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > One way to look at it is that the problem isn't malloc() - it's free().
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> So, let us allow use of malloc(), just ban free() ?
Oh ghods no. We'd get memory leaks for sure.
No, the right thing to do is ban any function that requires a following
free() to deallocate the storage it allocates.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
- [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] hacking: mention signing off on patches and why it's a good thing., Beat Bolli, 2016/03/28
- [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Beat Bolli, 2016/03/28
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Paul Fertser, 2016/03/28
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/28
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Fred Wright, 2016/03/30
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/30
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Sanjeev Gupta, 2016/03/31
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section.,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Paul Fertser, 2016/03/31
- Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section., Sanjeev Gupta, 2016/03/31
Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] hacking: mention signing off on patches and why it's a good thing., Paul Fertser, 2016/03/28