On Sunday 08 January 2006 02:50, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > Running valgrind on a program that uses the sine.so plugin in this > > package produces the following errors: > > Thanks for the patch. > > > This is due to the plugin allocating strings with strdup, but freeing > > them with delete[]. The attached patch fixes this, using free() to free > > the strings. > > Is there a real point in applying this change or is this just to appease > valgrind ? > > regards, > junichi
It's mainly to keep valgrind quiet, but I guess there could be some platforms where using delete[] on malloced memory could crash. Regards Rob -- Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tenfoot.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

