[vlc-devel] commit: modules: Fix const char * usage and memory management. (Pierre d' Herbemont )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mercredi 16 avril 2008, git version control a écrit :
>      /* We strdup() these entries so that they are still valid when
> the * module is unloaded. */
> -    p_module->psz_object_name = strdup( p_module->psz_object_name );
> +    /* This one is a (const char *) that will never get freed. */

Hum? If a shared object is unloaded, its constant data section may very 
well be unmapped.

> +    p_module->psz_object_name = p_module->psz_object_name;

Is this not a no-op???

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