Re: Is malloc garbage collecting?

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Hi!

Guy Bormann <spaderman@SPAM.wanadoo.NO.be> wrote:
>   However, what happens to the originally allocated pointer in the
> user program? Is that properly handled by mmap or is this a leak?
> (It is OK in small example programs but not for long-running
> programs that repeatedly allocate buffers.) Or is there a mistake
> in dump.c and should the user program free(buf) when it has
> changed?

Looking at what glibc/hurd/fd-read.c does, it seems to be a leak to not
check for equality and freeing the buffer. Does anyone agree/disagree?

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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