On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:17:17AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > The string_from_cstring() function has a slight flaw, in that it has to > allocate a piece of memory and create a C-style string from a nice happy > STRING. It's the responsibility of the caller to discard the C string > appropriately. > > This is tricky if that string immediately gets passed to real_exception() or > some other C function which does not return control; there's no chance to > free the string with string_cstring_free().
I hate to sound like the nag here but why don't we just not write code in form 'real_exception(string_from_cstring(foo))'. Part of living with dynamic memory allocating is dealing with the line bloat of shoving that free() call in there. -J --
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