Memory and gdb

[Andrew Cagney]

> I have memory management questions.  I thought the way to allocate
> memory in gdb was with xmalloc and to free it was xfree.  (At least
> that's what the internals document says).  But when I grep through
> the source, I can find xmalloc but no xfree.  When I try to link
> I get xfree multiply defined. It seems to be found in readline and
> in utils.c.   What's the proper way to free memory?

current gdb?  you may have code from the transition.

> $ grep xfree *.c | wc -l 
>      502

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