The following reply was made to PR bin/171634; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erik Cederstrand <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: bin/171634: Memory leak in /bin/df
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:34:20 +0200

 Hello Xin Li,
 
 Den 14/09/2012 kl. 10.14 skrev Xin Li <[email protected]>:
 
 > I believe this is a false positive.  There is no reason to release
 > memory right before quit, it's a waste of time and OS reclaims the
 > memory regardless.
 
 I raised question this on the Clang list. Joerg Sonnenberger replied =
 this:
 
   I wouldn't classify it as false positive. E.g. it is perfectly sane=20
   to redefine main as macro to use in a larger program.
 
 It's a one-liner and it's done anyway, albeit implicitly, so maybe it's =
 not too bad to make the free() explicit?
 
 Erik=
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