[patches] avoid unless exit()

[Greg A. Woods]

At Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:15:07 +0100, Gabor Gombas <gombasg at digikabel.hu> wrote:
Subject: Re: [patches] avoid unless exit()
> 
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:30:42AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> > indeed, and memory "frees" itself at exit time too, and calling free() a
> > whole lot of times on a sure path to exit() is a pedantic waste of time
> > and code (and thus maintenance).
> 
> OTOH properly releasing memory on exit paths makes hunting for memory
> leaks _much_ easier.

on "return" paths, perhaps, but not exit() paths -- there is no leak on
exit() :-)

memory management without (automatic) garbage collection is difficult to
be sure!

so, when I say "a sure path to exit()", I mean to imply that there's no
"return" involved and that we don't depend on the caller continuing on
to an exit().

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