> "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well... it would be nice if people would do CORRECT fixes. From > > some things DES was saying, people are making some really stupid "fixes" > > just to quite warnings. Esp. WRT const. > > Yes, the YP code is full of strdup()s that have no purpose other than > to silence const warnings, and the allocated memory is never freed - > nor is the return value from strdup() checked.
Some strdup()s are ok. if they are definitely one-offs, then they are no worse than "char foo[BAR]" for some value of BAR. Others can be downright evil. M -- o Mark Murray \_ FreeBSD Services Limited O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
