On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:22 AM, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 08.06.2013 14:15, schrieb Felipe Contreras: >> Why leave it out? If somebody makes the mistake of doing the above >> sequence, would you prefer that we leak? > > Leaking is better than silently cleaning up after a buggy caller because it > still allows the underlying bug to be found. No, it doesn't. The pointer is replaced and forever lost. How is leaking memory helping anyone to find the bug? -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html