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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe: removes some memory leaks from fromcwd.cc
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 21:04, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > >
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > > I haven't committed this leak - no changelog.
> >
> > Good, cause I've messed it - I'm an idiot :(. Attached is the right one.
> > And here is the Changelog entry.
> >
>
> Thanks. Committed to HEAD.
> Feel free to find and send in such things. I've got a large chunk of
> work I hope to send a patch to cygwin-patches on tonight, which catches
> a lot of potential bugs - I've increased the compiler warning levels
> somewhat :}.
>
> Unfortunately it's tied up with my streams work, so rather than
> committing with that in-progress (I haven't got one-of-each done yet)
> I'm going to send in a patch, which you can play with. The point of this
> is that a lot of the more mundane things you might notice should have
> been cleaned up in advance by this.
Sounds ok with me :) Btw what do you think of registering an
atexit() handler in setup so dynamically allocated global variables
can be freed there ? This is the way I started doing the cleanup
routine at my snapshot at home. Any drawback with this approach ?
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