Hi,

On 17/04/2020 09:47, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> Am 16.04.20 um 00:31 schrieb Antonio Quartulli:
>> is it really important to clone "groups" ? why just not chopping it ?
>> It shouldn't be re-used any more I think.
> 
> Maybe but modifying a parameter as side effect does not feel right. I
> rather have a clean API here instead of this unintended side stuff that
> can lead to kind of interesting bugs.

yeah, makes sense.

> 
>> If we really really need to alloc this memory, can't we get a gc from
>> outside? maybe from the option parser? We normally avoid explicit
>> alloc/free in the code.
> 
> The problem with a gc from the outside is that we don't really want to
> tie up the memory in options->gc as that would just be extra memory that
> is allocated the whole session I will update the patch to use a local gc.
> 

yeah, that would fit our style I think.

Thanks!

-- 
Antonio Quartulli


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