https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101713
--- Comment #2 from eggert at cs dot ucla.edu --- (In reply to David Malcolm from comment #1) > Am I right in thinking that there's a cast somewhere inside the hash table > code that at some point casts away the const from the pointer and frees it? Yes there's a cast to void *, but no it doesn't free the storage. Instead, the caller later is supposed to take ownership of the storage if it removes the item from the hashtable, e.g., the caller can later do this: void *entry = hash_remove (pattern); free (entry); where ENTRY will be the same pointer as STR in the sample code I gave earlier. This means there's no leak in addpat per se.
