Re: Debugging case refs

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> It's almost impossible to track down memory leaks when ref counted
> objects are involved.  I'm proposing this patch to case.[ch] which
> allows a preprocessor option to be set redefining case_ref and case_unref 
> to unconditionally copy and destroy cases respectively.  
>
> It would be easier to use if we could put the switch entirely inside case.c,
> since almost everything depends upon case.h -- but we could only do that
> if we sacrificed the benefits of the inline functions.

I think that this is valuable enough that we should move it into
case.c.  I'm half-inclined to think that we should make it
configurable at runtime instead of at compilation time, but once
it is isolated in case.c this is less important because only a
single file will have to be recompiled if the setting changes.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org