On 5/15/08, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > How about following patch?  I have bison 2.3 and it seems not to do
>  > global allocation, so it should be fine.  There may be early exit
>  > with elog(ERRROR) inside so I'd like to avoid malloc() itself.
>
> None of our other parsers fool with bison's memory allocation;
>  why does yours need to?

Because that way I can be sure I understand their allocation behaviour.

Eg. how does src/backend/parser/gram.c not leak memory on syntax error?
I don't understand it.

But if I force them use palloc(), always, I can be sure memore is freed.

-- 
marko

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