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[Bug translator/6694] auto_free seems to trigger *** glibc detected *** stap: double free or corruption (fasttop)

------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-06-25 12:45 -------
As a matter of policy, systemtap core has allowed itself to keep its own
allocated C/C++ heap memory objects alive, without explicit free()s.  This
is because the (programming) effort required to properly garbage-collect
everything far exceeds the benefit of saving a few megabytes of
user-space memory.  I advise that auto_free{} and similar efforts be taken
out, and that explicit free()s only be done if known to be absolutely safe.

(Elfutils-allocated memory *is* freed, since it is large and fairly
easy to clean up.)


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