On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, at 8:13 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > Hi Pietro. > Thanks for the patch. > >> _libga68_u32_to_u8 called free on the result buffer on error, but the >> buffer is allocated by the GC, so calling free on it is incorrect. > > But if LIBGA68_WITH_GC is not defined then _libga68_malloc_leaf used the > regular malloc, right? So the memory needs to be free or we will be > leaking memory..
If libga68 is built without the gc we always leak memory anyway. > Wouldn't it be better to make these functions always use > _libga68_malloc_internal and _libga68_malloc_free instead? It would. I'll give it a stab at using malloc_internal in u32_to_u8 and freeing in the callers. pietro
