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Re: Memory bug fixed


>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Uli> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>> Nevertheless we shouldn't call free (0).

Uli> I don't agree.  The if just increases the binary size.  We should
Uli> never increase the binary size if this is not performance critical.
Uli> E.g., I would agree to having this `if' if this would be in code which
Uli> runs normally.  But this is debugging code and we don't care about
Uli> speed (besides, it's executed exactly once).

I looked at shadow/fgetspent.c and there was also an if.  The message
in mtrace confused me. 

Shall I revert the patch and change fgetspent.c also?  Should we teach
mtrace to not emit an error message for free(0) ?

Andreas
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