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Re: reclaiming memory before exit


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: reclaiming memory before exit
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 13:23:04 -0700
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On 5/15/20 10:52 AM, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> There are certainly many 
> modern software projects that have higher requirements on cleanup of resources

Sure, just as there used to be software projects that had "higher" requirements
on using the Hungarian notation. Although those requirements may have been
justified by the inadequacies of software tools at the time, by today's
standards they were just make-work, and improving the inadequate tools was a
better solution.

For GNU apps, requiring 'free' before program exit is a similar sort of
make-work requirement - it's an artifact of inadequate tools and there's a good
argument that it would be better use of our collective time to fix the tools
rather than to complicate nearly every GNU app to work around the tools'
inadequacies. Bruno made some good suggestions in that direction.

> I do not understand why you take it personally.

I didn't take it personally. The email in question wasn't even directed at me. I
do value civility, though.



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