On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> This worked well under Linux with GCC. It cleared the Valgrind squawks.

Why is anyone obsessed about freeing memory that is assigned to
static pointers at most once.  There's no "memory leak" associated
with such allocations because the amout of extra memory used is
fixed.

> > There's a few bug reports circulating on the finding:
> >
> > * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584968
> > * http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2561&user=guest&pass=guest
> > * http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2439&user=guest&pass=guest
> >
> > What is the preferred way to free ssl_comp_methods?

There are probably more productive improvements that can be made
to the library.

-- 
        Viktor.
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