[PATCH] sim: Be sure of calling freeargv() after successfully call buildargv().

[Michael Eager]

On 01/28/15 14:19, Chen Gang S wrote:
> On 1/28/15 23:53, Michael Eager wrote:
>> On 01/28/15 03:45, Chen Gang S wrote:
>>> buildargv() and freeargv() are pairs, so need be sure of them always
>>> paired to avoid memory leak.
>>>
>>> 2015-01-28  Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>      * common/sim-options.c (sim_args_command): Call freeargv() when
>>>      failure occurs.
>>>      * mcore/interp.c (sim_do_command): Call freeargv() before return.
>>>      * microblaze/interp.c (sim_do_command): Call freeargv() before
>>>      return.
>>
>>
>> OK for Microblaze.
>>
>> There appear to be other places where buildargv() is not followed by
>> freeargv().  See sim/common/run.c.  There may be others.
>>
>
> For me, I intended to skip buildargv() in "sim/common/run.c", because it
> may contents read only memory. It is in main(), also main() often uses
> exit(), so I skip it, it doesn't matter.
>
> gdb also uses buildargv(), but it just wraps buildargv() and freeargv(),
> so at least it is another patch (either, at least now, I do not find any
> issues about it in gdb).
>
> Except the above 2, for me, there are no any other places to use
> buildargv().
>
>
> Does the patch comments need to mention about the contents above?

No, you don't need to mention what is not modified.


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