Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 GMT From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/171634: Memory leak in /bin/df Message-ID: <201209141140.q8EBeDQs025336@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/171634; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/171634: Memory leak in /bin/df Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:34:20 +0200 Hello Xin Li, Den 14/09/2012 kl. 10.14 skrev Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>: > I believe this is a false positive. There is no reason to release > memory right before quit, it's a waste of time and OS reclaims the > memory regardless. I raised question this on the Clang list. Joerg Sonnenberger replied = this: I wouldn't classify it as false positive. E.g. it is perfectly sane=20 to redefine main as macro to use in a larger program. It's a one-liner and it's done anyway, albeit implicitly, so maybe it's = not too bad to make the free() explicit? Erik=
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