http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53510
--- Comment #7 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-05-29 07:53:37 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > Created attachment 27515 [details] > gcc48-pr53510.patch > > Ugh, that leaks like crazy. Not only it forgets to free buffers, but also > doubles the size of the allocation (which is fine) but only adds 2 to the > expected allocated block length, so it allocates twice as much for every 2 > bytes beyond 200 characters on a line. You are right. It is very weird what that code is doing. FWIW, I copied the function from gcov.c:read_line, so I guess that code has the same bug.
