On 2009/07/11 11:15, Remco wrote:
> I was wondering, isn't it true that in code like this,
>
> allocated_mem = malloc(...);
> ...
> if (error_condition)
> err(...);
> ...
> free(allocated_mem);
>
> the 'allocated_mem' will get lost into space if 'error_condition' occurs ?
>
> If so, the 'bio_createraid', and the 'bio_parse_devlist' function which is
> called by 'bio_createraid', might leak memory this way on several occasions.
>
The err(), verr(), errx(), and verrx() functions do not return, but exit
with the value of the argument eval.
allocated_mem is freed when the process exits.
