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Re: find(1) memory leak in cygheap


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:01:44PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Greg Chicares wrote:
>> On 2009-08-20 11:54Z, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> [...]  (Hmm, now there's an idea.  GCC needs an
>>> __attribute__ that you can tag onto a class to say it must be a POD-type and
>>> get a compiler error if anyone ever adds a virtual function or anything else
>>> that would make the layout non-POD.)
>> 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/msg/71ae531aa27e70c5
>> | GCC 4.3.1 provides the __is_pod extension
>> ...
>> | tr1/type_traits is implemented using __is_pod
>> 
>> Combining that with static_assert, I suppose you could write
>> this restriction in standard C++ (TR1) instead of creating a
>> new __attribute__.
>
>  Ooh, nice trick.  Thanks.

We should probably consider removing the memcpy's from the path_conv and
fhandler_base classes for 1.7.1.  I started to do that this morning but
realized that this wasn't something for 1.7.0.

cgf

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