[vlc-devel] Re: Am i going mad??

[Kenneth Østby]

Hi,

On 4/20/07, Nikos Antonopoulos <nantonop at orbitech.gr> wrote:
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>
> static void DupString( vlc_value_t *p_val ) { p_val->psz_string =
> strdup( p_val->psz_string ); }
>
>
> surely this is nothing but a small memleak... or is it???



 Well, without knowing its specific function, it doesn't have to memleak.

Consider the following bit of code:

char *f = "hello world";
p_val->psz_string = f;

DupString(p_val);

free(f);
f = NULL;

It can be quite useful at times if you don't want to :
p_val->psz_string = strdup(f);


Kenneth
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