Problem Building Cygwin PostgreSQL

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> Volker,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:02:11PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > However, it does stackdump whenever I execute 'psql --help'.
> 
> The above was caused by the following in src/bin/psql/help.c:
> 
>     void
>     usage(void)
>     {
>         ...
>     #ifndef WIN32
>         if (pw)
>             free(pw);
>     #endif
>     }
> 
> Changing the above #ifndef to:
> 
>     #if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
> 
> fixed this niggling crash.
> 

Hmm...  This appears that it would potentially cause a memory leak.  What
happens if instead of this patch you initialize the pointer to NULL?

Cheers,

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