On 23/05/16 17:10, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote: > On 05/21/2016 07:28 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 20/05/16 16:55, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote: >>> >>>> This also drops all the code freeing string buffers at the end of main. >>>> Memory is freed when the process exits anyway so there's no point in >>>> cluttering the code with all those gotos. >>> >>> well, it helps to see that all memory has been released when looking for >>> leaks :) >>> e.g. valgrind becomes much less useful when the program exits with tons of >>> memory still allocated >> Beyond that we are looking at code here that will get cut and paste into >> other >> peoples applications - they might not pick up that it doesn't clean up >> properly >> after itself. >> >> I'd much prefer to keep these explicit frees in place. > > I think this would make more sense for a library (like libiio). But > isn't the code in tools/iio merely an a test tool? Absolutely - but as we all know test tool code gets copied when one is an hurry! > > I submitted v2 which keeps the frees. It still simplifies them by > relying on stuff like free(NULL) being allowed. That's a nicer approach.
Jonathan >
