Re: [Libvir] [patch 1/5] iptables: fix invalid free
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:57:09PM +0000, David Edmondson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Well, one of the things I do in my wrapper is initilize to -1 all newly
> allocated bytes, allows to pinpoint relatively easilly when you assumed zeroed
> memory which was not, while not paying for the initialization when not needed.
If you initialise the bytes to -1, don't you always pay the cost of
initialisation?
that's just when I use the debugging set of routines, off in the normal case.
Somehow valgrind should now allow to spot those kind of errors, but valgrind
ain't everywhere.
Daniel
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