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Re: [patch] temporary file handling

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon at cvs dot openwall dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, Solar Designer <solar at openwall dot com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:28:19 +1030
Subject: Re: [patch] temporary file handling
References: <20101010094258.GA11624@albatros> <20101011030842.GO26553@bubble.grove.modra.org> <71843097-57F8-44A4-A753-FA14710C3327@adacore.com>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:45:48AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> 
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > 
> > Possible free(NULL) here and in make_tempdir, which may crash on some
> > older implementations of free.  We seem to worry about that
> > possibility elsewhere in binutils.
> 
> Side question:  we currently assume ISO-C (aka ANSI-C) compiler.  Don't we also assume ANSI-C library ?

I didn't want to set that policy, which is why I mentioned free(0).
Nowadays, it probably would be quite a reasonable requirement.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- [patch] temporary file handling
  - From: Vasiliy Kulikov
- Re: [patch] temporary file handling
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: [patch] temporary file handling
  - From: Tristan Gingold

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