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Martin Sebor updated STDCXX-583:
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    Affects Version/s: 4.2.0
        Fix Version/s: 4.3

Scheduled for 4.3 when we'll need to re-run Purify against newly added code and 
assigned to Travis.

> purify reports memory leak inside rw_putenv()
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>                 Key: STDCXX-583
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-583
>             Project: C++ Standard Library
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Test Driver
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0
>            Reporter: Travis Vitek
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.3
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>         Attachments: 0.printf.log
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> rw_putenv() uses putenv() to add variables to the environment. Unfortunately 
> putenv() actually places the user provided string into the environment, so 
> the string cannot be deallocated immediately. The result is false positive 
> memory leaks in tests that use rw_putenv().
> One solution would be to use setenv() and unsetenv() on platforms that 
> support them. This avoids the memory leak. Another option would be to have 
> rw_putenv() track the environment strings that were added, then remove and 
> deallocate them when the test driver is taken down.

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