Re: [PATCH 10/21] Free mktag's buffer before dying

On Saturday 09 June 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

On 6/9/07, Johan Herland [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

+       if (parse_and_verify_tag_buffer(0, buffer, size, 1)) {
+               free(buffer);
+               die("invalid tag data file");

This, and the similar one below are useless. You're destroying the
process, what do you free that buffer for? Either handle the error
case or do not needlessly complicate your change, which really
also absolutely unneeded.

Well, I was taught to treat my memory with care.

Right now it doesn't make any difference in practice (except that
Valgrind might be a bit happier with it), but in the future -- with
the libifaction effort and whatnot -- you never know what might happen
to this piece of code, and I'd like to stay on the safe side.

Feel free to drop this patch from the series if I'm the only one thinking
like this.


...Johan

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Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
www.herland.net