+ Argyrios

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ted, Daniel, do you have any concerns about this patch?
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ted and Daniel,
>>
>> we're trying to get clang LSan-clean: completely free of leaks (PR19521).
>> One of the last areas where leaks are still reported are in c-index-tests –
>> I believe for the tests that test crash recovery. If libclang detects that
>> it has crashed, it doesn't free the CXTranslationUnit in
>> clang_disposeTranslationUnit().
>>
>> There are a few other places in clang that intentionally leak things, so
>> BuryPointer() (in lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp) exists to mark
>> pointers that are not going to be freed. The attached patch lets
>> clang_disposeTranslationUnit() call BuryPointer() when it's not going to
>> free things.
>>
>> BuryPointer only increments an atomic unsigned and then writes to a global
>> array indexed by said unsigned, so this should be a relatively safe thing to
>> do. I suppose if libclang crashes and one is very unlucky, some rogue code
>> could have overwritten the atomic int, but BuryPointer() does range
>> checking. I think this is a safe change to make, but it's tricky code so I
>> thought pre-commit review is the way to go here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nico
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