RFA: Correct field names for class methods

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:23:06AM -0700, David Carlton wrote:
> In article <20020827031346.GA16591@nevyn.them.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz
> <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>  
> > +void
> > +update_method_name_from_physname (char **old_name, char *physname)
> > +{
> > +  char *method_name;
> > +
> > +  method_name = method_name_from_physname (physname);
> > +
> > +  if (method_name == NULL)
> > +    error ("bad physname %s\n", physname);
> > +
> > +  if (strcmp (*old_name, method_name) != 0)
> > +    *old_name = method_name;
> > +  else
> > +    xfree (method_name);
> > +}
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is a memory leak.  How about replacing the last
> if clause by
> 
>   xfree(*old_name);
>   *old_name = method_name;
> 
> That should get rid of the memory leak and avoid a superfluous
> strcmp.

No can do.  Look at where TYPE_NAME is allocated; sometimes (often? 
Not sure.) it is on the obstack.  We're not consistent about that.  We
need to be, someday, but that's a separate cleanup.

> (Also, the ChangeLog entry has the name of this function written
> incorrectly.)

Oops, thanks!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer