Re: Memory leak a "fix" for stable tree?

[Larry Jones]

Derek Robert Price writes:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone had an opinion on this.  I have a six or seven 
> line fix for a memory leak (usually only a few bytes leak, and not more 
> than what has already been allocated for argv) that I'm getting ready to 
> commit to the feature branch.  Is that a valid fix for the stable tree, 
> or are we only fixing errors that cause user-perceivable problems there?

I'd say it's a valid fix for the stable tree, provided it's a valid fix
at all -- I'm pretty sure I've run the whole test suite under Purify
without it reporting any leaks.

-Larry Jones

I think we need to change the rules. -- Calvin