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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: bin/144974: [patch] ping6(1): malloc()s not free()'d
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The following reply was made to PR bin/144974; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, earl.lapus@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: bin/144974: [patch] ping6(1): malloc()s not free()'d
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:40:40 +0100

 Of course it's good style to free memory which has been allocated, but 
 I'm not sure if we should be doing it here since it appears to 
 complicate the code, and there's no memory leak while ping6 is running 
 (i.e. when it's doing work).
 
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 Bruce Cran