Hi,
I also agree garbage collection.
Anyway, this kind of problem should be checked by valgrind.
Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:16 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> + buffer = realloc (buffer, len+1);
>>> + if (buffer == NULL) goto out_of_memory;
>
> Note, if realloc() fails, the original buffer isn't freed. So, you want
> to make sure you free the original one.
I even kept the oldbuffer around for this reason, but then forgot to
free it!
Grrrr ... garbage.collection++
Rich.
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