Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In my personal opinion 'set_me_free_after_use' is not the best name, > but I unfortunately do not have a better proposal. Maybe 'entrust_ptr', > or 'entrusted_data' / 'entrusted_ptr' / 'entrusted'? Is this to accumulate to-be-freed pointers? I think we often call a local variable that points at a piece of memory to be freed "to_free", and that is an appropriate name for what this function is trying to do. It is a bit surprising that the careless memory management in this codepath leaks only the dumb pieces of memory (as opposed to pointers to structures like string list that needs _clear() functions, in which case we cannot get away with list of to-be-freed). I guess we were somewhat lucky ;-)