Kevin J. McCarthy wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: |>> The memory allocated and returned by mutt_gen_base64_enc_rand() is being |>> leaked. |> |>I'm thinking that there are two meanings of "leak". |>This can be confusing. :-) | |*facepalm*. I did use the exact same word "leak" again, didn't I? :-) | |Sorry Remco. Hopefully it's clear enough now that by "leak" we mean the |memory is not being free()'ed properly.
Unfortunately i feel to need to annotate that for the code of the MUA i maintain aka that i posted this is not true since we use auto-reclaimed memory since 1978 (called "string dope" by then). (Sorry for that.) Ciao from Germany, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
