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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/ps



On 12.09.2019 02:52, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 11/09/2019 20:03, Robert Elz wrote:
>>      Date:        Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:02:53 +0000
>>      From:        "Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost>
>>      Message-ID:  <20190911170253.D097FFBF4%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>
>>
>>    | Free it when no longer used, just before the program termination.
>>
>> Can we please avoid this kind of nonsense.   Everything is freed when
>> every program exits - doing explicit free() calls makes the program
>> bigger
>> and slower for no reason at all.
>>
>> By all means fix places where memory is truly leaked (whenre more is
>> continuously allocated, and simply discarded) but anything that is
>> supposed
>> to remain until program exit should simply go away when the exit happens.
>>
>> If the canitisers cannot be instructed to ignore such things, they are
>> much less useful tan they could be.
> 
> Could we add an #ifdef for this?
> 
> #ifdef __SANITISATION
> free(foo);
> close(bar);
> #endif
> 
> return EXIT_SUCCESS;

For answer, please see:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2019/09/12/msg012106.html

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