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authorPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2018-12-04 23:28:14 +0100
committerPhilippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>2018-12-07 16:32:23 +0100
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Fix a (one shot small) leak in language.c
Valgrind detects the following leak: ==28395== VALGRIND_GDB_ERROR_BEGIN ==28395== 5 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 20 of 2,770 ==28395== at 0x4C2BE2D: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299) ==28395== by 0x41D9E7: xmalloc (common-utils.c:44) ==28395== by 0x78BF39: xstrdup (xstrdup.c:34) ==28395== by 0x51F1AC: _initialize_language() (language.c:1175) ==28395== by 0x6B3356: initialize_all_files() (init.c:308) ==28395== by 0x66D194: gdb_init(char*) (top.c:2159) ==28395== by 0x554C11: captured_main_1 (main.c:863) ==28395== by 0x554C11: captured_main (main.c:1167) ==28395== by 0x554C11: gdb_main(captured_main_args*) (main.c:1193) ==28395== by 0x29D837: main (gdb.c:32) ==28395== ==28395== VALGRIND_GDB_ERROR_END This is a very small leak (1 block/5 bytes), happening only once per GDB startup as far as I can see. But this fix make the nr of leaking GDB in the testsuite decreasing from 628 to 566. It is unclear why a xstrdup-ed value is assigned to 'language' at initialization time, while a static "auto" string is assigned as part of the set_language_command. So, that shows that it is ok to initialize 'language' directly with "auto". Also, I cannot find any place where 'language' is xfree-d. No leak was detected for 'range' and 'case_sensitive', but similarly, no indication why a static string cannot be assigned. Regression-tested on debian/x86_64. Also, full testsuite run under valgrind, less tests leaking, and no dangling pointer problem detected. gdb/ChangeLog 2018-12-05 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be> * language.c (_initialize_language): Fix leak by assigning a static string to language. Same for range and case_sensitive, even if no leak is detected for these variables.
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