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elfcode.h memory leak?
- To: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: elfcode.h memory leak?
- From: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:48:53 -0800
elf_slurp_symbol_table has this:
symbase = ((elf_symbol_type *)
bfd_zalloc (abfd, symcount * sizeof (elf_symbol_type)));
Who's responsibility is it to free `symbase'?
bfd_canonicalize_symtab returns an array of pointers into this.
But I don't see where the actual symbol array is freed.
It isn't recorded anywhere for someone to free.
Is one supposed to just know that the first symbol pointer is a
pointer to the head of the malloc'd chunk and therefore can be
passed to free()? Rather clumsy and fragile, so I'm guessing
I'm overlooking something.