On 02/16/2016 05:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/16/2016 06:42 AM, Daniel Lockyer wrote:
>> --- a/src/date.c
>> +++ b/src/date.c
>> @@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
>>        ok &= show_date (format, when, tz);
>>      }
>>
>> +  free(tz);
>> +
>>    return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
>>  }
> 
> Memory is going to be freed anyway by virtue of exiting; leaving
> something allocated is actually faster than freeing it. We typically
> mark code like this addition inside IF_LINT() so that it is only
> compiled to shut up valgrind, but intentionally omitted when we don't
> care about the leak.

Right, so I'll push the attached in Daniel's name soon.
Please note that I changed 'free' to 'tzfree' for correctness.

Have a nice day,
Berny
>From 587a1ba5df564eaea26c0bc5f5f31a934e4424b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Lockyer <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:52:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] date: free timezone variable to avoid valgrind warning

* src/date.c (main): Free TZ variable to pacify valgrind, guarded
by IF_LINT.
---
 src/date.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/date.c b/src/date.c
index 3670553..269570b 100644
--- a/src/date.c
+++ b/src/date.c
@@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       ok &= show_date (format, when, tz);
     }
 
+  IF_LINT (tzfree (tz));
+
   return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4

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