Re: [Bug-wget] Memory leak in idn_encode; Valgrind suppression file

[Ángel González]

Thanks for your work, Hubert.

I agree it is helpful to name them differently. What about this 
alternative rename?
(I'm the host reassignation by using a ternary, plus touched a comment)

diff --git a/src/iri.c b/src/iri.c
index dc1ebd0..eec5646 100644
--- a/src/iri.c
+++ b/src/iri.c
@@ -225,19 +225,21 @@ locale_to_utf8 (const char *str)
 char *
 idn_encode (struct iri *i, char *host)
 {
-  char *new;
   int ret;
+  char *ascii_encoded;
+  char *utf8_encoded = NULL;

   /* Encode to UTF-8 if not done */
   if (!i->utf8_encode)
     {
-      if (!remote_to_utf8 (i, (const char *) host, (const char **) &new))
+      if (!remote_to_utf8 (i, (const char *) host, (const char **) 
&utf8_encoded))
           return NULL;  /* Nothing to encode or an error occured */
-      host = new;
     }

-  /* toASCII UTF-8 NULL terminated string */
-  ret = idna_to_ascii_8z (host, &new, IDNA_FLAGS);
+  /* Store in ascii_encoded the ASCII UTF-8 NULL terminated string */
+  ret = idna_to_ascii_8z (utf8_encoded ? utf8_encoded : host, 
&ascii_encoded, IDNA_FLAGS);
+  xfree (utf8_encoded);
+
   if (ret != IDNA_SUCCESS)
     {
       /* sXXXav : free new when needed ! */
@@ -246,7 +248,7 @@ idn_encode (struct iri *i, char *host)
       return NULL;
     }

-  return new;
+  return ascii_encoded;
 }

 /* Try to decode an "ASCII encoded" host. Return the new domain in the 
locale