On 12.09.2019 02:52, Roy Marples wrote: > On 11/09/2019 20:03, Robert Elz wrote: >> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:02:53 +0000 >> From: "Kamil Rytarowski" <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost> >> Message-ID: <20190911170253.D097FFBF4%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost> >> >> | Free it when no longer used, just before the program termination. >> >> Can we please avoid this kind of nonsense. Everything is freed when >> every program exits - doing explicit free() calls makes the program >> bigger >> and slower for no reason at all. >> >> By all means fix places where memory is truly leaked (whenre more is >> continuously allocated, and simply discarded) but anything that is >> supposed >> to remain until program exit should simply go away when the exit happens. >> >> If the canitisers cannot be instructed to ignore such things, they are >> much less useful tan they could be. > > Could we add an #ifdef for this? > > #ifdef __SANITISATION > free(foo); > close(bar); > #endif > > return EXIT_SUCCESS; For answer, please see: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2019/09/12/msg012106.html
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