At Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:15:07 +0100, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: Re: [patches] avoid unless exit() > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:30:42AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > indeed, and memory "frees" itself at exit time too, and calling free() a > > whole lot of times on a sure path to exit() is a pedantic waste of time > > and code (and thus maintenance). > > OTOH properly releasing memory on exit paths makes hunting for memory > leaks _much_ easier. on "return" paths, perhaps, but not exit() paths -- there is no leak on exit() :-) memory management without (automatic) garbage collection is difficult to be sure! so, when I say "a sure path to exit()", I mean to imply that there's no "return" involved and that we don't depend on the caller continuing on to an exit(). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP RoboHack <woods@xxxxxxxxxxx> Planix, Inc. <woods@xxxxxxxxxx> Secrets of the Weird <woods@xxxxxxxxx> ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
