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Re: Problem Building Cygwin PostgreSQL
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>, "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problem Building Cygwin PostgreSQL
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:01:25 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: Cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>, pgsql-ports at postgresql dot org
--- 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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